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§ art-006-inside-ffn · April 20, 2026 · FUNDAMENTALS

What Happens Inside a Transformer FFN Layer? A Visual Guide

Harikumar · 8 min read

Step inside a transformer FFN layer and see what actually fires. From neuron activation patterns to the key-value memory hypothesis, this visual walkthrough explains how two matrix multiplications and a nonlinearity encode most of what a language model knows.

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