"of" after an agency or department name
A neuronOne of thousands of tiny dials inside each layer. It reads the text so far and produces a number, its activation, that nudges what the model writes next. in layerOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. 9 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are very consistent: they mostly peak on the same token. It is featuredA neuron picked for the full treatment: steering outputs and a written explanation. About 3,000 of the 86,000 neurons are featured., so it has steering outputs.
What this neuron does
This neuron lights up on the word "of" when it follows the name of a government department or institution, such as "Department of Natural Resources". Turning it up made the model write about unrelated subjects, so the steering does not show this pattern.
Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: medium. Think it is wrong? Flag it (opens a prefilled issue on GitHub).
Fires most on
The text windows where this neuron's activationThe number a neuron produces for a token. Large positive means it fired hard; negative means it pushed the other way. was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined tokenA piece of text the model reads at once: often a word, sometimes part of a word or a punctuation mark. is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.
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of Chippewa Indians won fishing rights in 1990 ceded by a 1837 treaty and works with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to set limits that preserves the fishery. Indian fishing rights issues in
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kin Uses Technology, Science to Treat Troubled Youth⏎From the October 2013 Desktop News | Troubled youth in the custody of the Alabama Department of Youth Services have been given a second chance at success thanks to the work of Dr
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of success,” Rees says.⏎State officials also connect the recent decline in adult sturgeon numbers to sea lions. But Tony Nigro with Oregon’s Department of Fish and
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of arsenic, cadmium, manganese, and lead and birth defects prevalence. The studies used a statewide database of private well contaminants collected by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health as well as data from the North Carolina
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res rouse him? The<|endoftext|>Juvenile striped bass spawned in the Chesapeake Bay were at a record low at the end of the summer. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently completed its annual young of the year survey and found far fewer juvenile
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sensible cooling capacity and latent cooling capacity.⏎Sensible cooling capacity is the air conditioner's ability to remove heat and lower temperature<|endoftext|>Last month, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a 3-day workshop: "Optim
SteeringAdding a push along a neuron while the model writes, to see how its output changes. Turning it up or down.
Push this neuron up or down while the model writes, and watch what changes. The outputs were generated ahead of time, so nothing runs in your browser.
Here is something I have been thinking about lately: "I am a student of the art of the student, and I am in the middle of this very thing." What is being said here, and what I am doing. Let's see. If I were to explain this to someone,
Most negative on
Where the activation went furthest below zero. Blue marks negative activation. Many neurons mean something different in each direction.
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, including issues with heart health, kidney problems, and seizures.⏎A person suffering from anorexia nervosa will typically fall under one of two forms of self-starvation: restricting, in which the person participates in extreme diets, fasting, or
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make sure you comprehend the question, which is needed to be enlightened in your paper. You need to evaluate the topic, which will take some time. World War 2 is such a broad theme that in order to write a profound essay, you
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eltis polypodioides. It gets its name from its effective, defense mechanism against droughts. Being able to survive decades without water and still be able to return to a healthy state after some watering. This has made a lot of
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ago, the Navajo Nation and Southern Ute tribes languished side by side, mired in high unemployment and poverty.⏎Today, worth billions, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe is one of the richest in the United
Connections
Show on mapWhich neuronsOne of thousands of tiny dials inside each layer. It reads the text so far and produces a number, its activation, that nudges what the model writes next. in earlier layersOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. feed this one, and which later ones it feeds. Amber links excite, blue links suppress; longer bars are stronger.
Fed by earlier layers
- L8:119 suppresses
- L8:2854 excites
- L7:266 suppresses
- L8:204 suppresses
- L8:177 suppresses
- L8:149 suppresses
- L8:182 excites
- L6:91 excites
- L8:376 suppresses
- L7:26 suppresses
- L3:4 excites
- L7:23 suppresses
- L8:941 suppresses
- L8:320 excites
- L8:282 excites
- L7:6 weakly suppresses
- L8:230 weakly suppresses
- L4:559 weakly suppresses
- L3:0 weakly excites
- L8:25 weakly suppresses
- L8:296 weakly excites 'of' inside fixed noun phrases
- L8:71 weakly excites
- L7:57 weakly excites
- L4:274 weakly excites
Feeds later layers
- L10:308 strongly suppresses
- L10:146 excites
- L11:341 suppresses
- L11:222 excites
- L11:25 excites
- L10:642 suppresses
- L11:285 suppresses
- L10:137 excites 'the' before a noun after 'of'
- L11:1110 suppresses
- L10:208 suppresses
- L10:202 excites
- L11:180 suppresses
- L14:617 suppresses
- L12:219 weakly suppresses
- L11:2138 weakly suppresses
- L10:703 weakly suppresses
- L10:498 weakly excites hyphen inside numbers
- L10:1132 weakly suppresses
- L13:2661 weakly suppresses
- L10:620 weakly suppresses middle of technical terms in science text
- L12:2 weakly suppresses
- L16:176 weakly suppresses
- L14:1780 weakly excites
- L21:2941 weakly suppresses
Activation histogramA chart of how often a neuron takes each activation value.
How often this neuron fires at each strength. Almost always it does close to nothing (the tall bars in the middle); the snippets above are the rare moments it fired hard, amber for positive and blue for negative.
Logit lensReading which output tokens a neuron pushes toward or away from, straight off its output weights, before the later layers have their say.
The words this neuron nudges the model toward (amber) or away from (blue) when it fires. A hint, not a label: many neurons work through later layersOne step in the stack the text passes through. Qwen3-0.6B has 28 layers, each with 3,072 neurons. instead.
Promotes
- eties
- ité
- encion
- iences
- ientes
- erts
- entially
- erà
- atches
- AttributeSet
Suppresses
- quam
- шение
- ibus
- ucus
- uke
- tica
- 边界
- fühl
- ux
- xDB