How to mess around with neurons... a short guide

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-11-09 23:59

A guide has been published on how to manipulate individual neurons within the Qwen large language model to alter its behavior. This technique, known as neuron steering, involves adding a fixed AI

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r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Tasty-Ad-3753 · 2026-11-09 23:59

How to mess around with neurons... a short guide

<div class="md"><p>I made a couple of posts about weird neurons inside Qwen that I'd found and lots of people were asking how it was done so I thought it would be useful for people to have a guide. Generally this was inspired by justinrhowell's neuron-steering repo…