Neuronpedia

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Dec 2025 - Rolling Release

Gemma Scope 2

Google DeepMind, Language Model Interpretability Team

August 2025

The Circuit Analysis
Research Landscape

Anthropic, EleutherAI, Goodfire AI, Google DeepMind

Neuronpedia is an

open source interpretability

platform.

Explore, steer, and experiment on AI models.

MIT Technology ReviewAnthropicGoogle DeepMindVentureBeatOpenMOSS, Fudan UniversityEleutherAIApollo Research

Explore

Browse over four terabytes of activations, explanations, and metadata.
Neuronpedia supports probes,

latents/features, custom vectors,

concepts, and more.

Releases

Models

Jump To

Graph

Visualize and trace the internal reasoning steps of a model with custom prompts, pioneered by Anthropic

'

s

circuit tracing

papers.

Attribution graph example with Dallas gemma-2-2b

Steer

Modify model behavior by steering its activations using latents or custom vectors. Steering supports instruct (chat) and reasoning models, and has fully customizable temperature, strength, seed, etc.

Steering example with a cat feature

Search

Search over 50,000,000 latents/vectors, either by semantic similarity to explanation text, or by running custom text via inference through a model to find top matches.

Search via Inference

API + Libraries

Neuronpedia hosts the

world's first interpretability API (March 2024)

- and all functionality is available by API or Python/TypeScript libraries. Most endpoints have an OpenAPI spec and interactive docs.

Steering example with a cat feature

Inspect

Go in depth on each probe/latent/feature with top activations, top logits, activation density, and live inference testing. All dashboards have unique links, can be compiled into sharable lists, and supports IFrame embedding, as demonstrated here.

Who We Are

Neuronpedia was created by

Johnny Lin, an ex-Apple engineer who previously founded a privacy startup. Neuronpedia is supported by Decode Research, Open Philanthropy, the Long Term Future Fund, AISTOF, Anthropic, Manifund, and others.

Citation

@misc{neuronpedia,
    title = {Neuronpedia: Interactive Reference and Tooling for Analyzing Neural Networks},
    year = {2023},
    note = {Software available from neuronpedia.org},
    url = {https://www.neuronpedia.org},
    author = {Lin, Johnny}
}