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Browser-Resident Visualization Suite for Transformer Internals: Three Self-Contained HTML Tools Extending the Mercury-Viewer Pattern

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Independent researcher, charenix.com

Description

© Copyright 2026 Chen, Ho Yiing (ORCID: 0009-0006-6816-9891), Independent researcher, charenix.com. All rights reserved by the author. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Mercury-Viewer (10.5281/zenodo.20313150) established a design pattern for transformer interpretability tooling: a single self-contained HTML file, no install, no server, no API key, that opens in any browser and renders the inside of a transformer language model as an interactive 3D point cloud.

This artifact paper releases three follow-on tools applying the same pattern to three different questions:

  1. overlap.html — cylindrical 3D point cloud of the 49-coordinate cross-model overlap and the 11-coordinate triple-confirmed subset from the cross-model dimensional preservation analysis (Mercury Paper A).
  2. frankenstein-v1.html — three side-by-side cones showing qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, the SLERP merge, and qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct, with 11 rose-gold lines marking protected anchors and the merge cone colored by SLERP t value.
  3. frankenstein-arena.html — frozen snapshot of one inference pass rendered as cargo orbs traveling on cables between functional rooms (universal core, language detector, physics reasoning, etc.).

All three artifacts: single HTML file, no build step, no API key, no GPU dependency, every visible artifact hoverable, every numeric claim tied to an integer coordinate. Live at charenix.com/neuron-mercury/.

Limitation: no user study run. Pedagogical claims are informal.

Companion records: Mercury-Viewer (10.5281/zenodo.20313150), Mercury method (10.5281/zenodo.20313154), Mercury discovery (10.5281/zenodo.20313748), Mercury scaling (10.5281/zenodo.20325676).

Notes

Artifact paper documenting 3 follow-on browser-resident visualization tools that extend the Mercury-Viewer design pattern. User study deferred. Source HTML files live in the open dataset record (10.5281/zenodo.20313150).

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Software: https://github.com/norika/Neuron-Mercury (URL)
Is supplement to
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.20313150 (DOI)
Preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.20313154 (DOI)
Preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.20313748 (DOI)
Preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.20325676 (DOI)

References

  • Chen, Ho Yiing (2026). Mercury-Viewer: A self-contained browser-based interactive 3D visualization of LLM internal sensor maps. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20313150
  • Chen, Ho Yiing (2026). Cross-model dimensional preservation in qwen2.5: 49 hot coordinates survive across 3B and 7B. In preparation (Mercury Paper A).
  • Chen, Ho Yiing (2026). Observation-driven SLERP merge of qwen2.5 variants fails on a five-prompt probe. In preparation (Mercury Paper D).
  • Bricken, T. et al. (2023). Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning. Transformer Circuits Thread, Anthropic. https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/monosemantic-features
  • three.js contributors. three.js: JavaScript 3D library. https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js