Credits.

The people behind Drowse.

The team

The people who build and maintain Drowse.

a9lim

@_a9lim a9l.im

treetown

@treetowntree logits.ml

Special thanks

People and groups who inspired, supported or contributed to Drowse.

Models of Technical Staff

The models that worked hard to bring Drowse to life.

Opus 4.6Anthropic
Opus 4.7Anthropic
Opus 4.8Anthropic
Opus 5Anthropic
Fable 5Anthropic
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI

Research Drowse builds on

If you use Drowse in published research, cite these methods too.

Representation Engineering
Zou et al., 2023The approach Drowse builds on.
repeng(opens GitHub)
Theia VogelThe best-known compact implementation of representation engineering.
Difference-of-means extraction
Im and Li, 2025Two-pole extraction follows this method.
Manifold steering
GoodfireManifold steering follows this work.
The Assistant Axis
AnthropicThe personas source is derived from its framing.
Verbalizable workspace
Gurnee et al., 2026The R and S lenses implement this method.
Neuron Lens
Standard LogitsNeuron and head reads follow its definitions.

Interpretability tools and data

Tools and data behind SAE readings, feature labels and the lenses.

SAELens(opens GitHub)
SAELens contributorsLoads published sparse autoencoders in the Python edition.
Gemma Scope 2
Google DeepMindSparse autoencoders for Gemma 3, used for SAE readings.
Neuronpedia
Feature descriptions for Gemma Scope 2 features.
FineWeb-Edu
Hugging Face (Lozhkov, Ben Allal, von Werra and Wolf, 2024)The R and S lenses are fitted on 64 of its documents (sample-10BT), and the S lens's token mask counts them. The lens packs carry fitted matrices and counts, not corpus text. Its use is also subject to Common Crawl's Terms of Use. License:ODC-By 1.0

Models

Open models you can run in Drowse. Each keeps its own license.

Gemma 3
Google270M, 1B and 4B instruction-tuned, and 1B base. Instruction-tuned weights come from Unsloth's copies. Gemma is provided under and subject to the Gemma Terms of Use found at ai.google.dev/gemma/terms. License:Gemma Terms of Use
Qwen3 and Qwen3.5
Qwen team, Alibaba CloudQwen3 1.7B and 4B, and Qwen3.5 2B base. License:Apache 2.0
GPT-2
OpenAIThe original 124M model. License:Modified MIT
Pythia
EleutherAI70M, trained on deduplicated data. License:Apache 2.0

Software and type

Open-source projects Drowse ships with or is built with.

WebLLM(opens GitHub)
MLCRuns models in the browser. Drowse uses its own fork, @drowse/web-llm. License:Apache 2.0
Apache TVM(opens GitHub)
Apache Software FoundationCompiles models for WebGPU. License:Apache 2.0
Svelte
Svelte contributorsThe interface framework. License:MIT
Vite
Vite contributorsBuilds the site. License:MIT
fflate(opens GitHub)
Arjun BarrettCompression for archives and downloads. License:MIT
noble-hashes(opens GitHub)
Paul MillerChecks downloaded files. License:MIT
YAML
Eemeli AroReads and writes transcripts. License:ISC
Torph
Lochie AxonText morphing. License:MIT
Wix Madefor(opens GitHub)
The Wix Madefor Project AuthorsDisplay and text font. License:SIL Open Font License 1.1
Ledger(opens GitHub)
Standard LogitsThe design language every Standard Logits surface is drawn in. License:AGPL-3.0

Full license texts for every bundled package are on the third-party licenses page.

Cite Drowse

If Drowse helped your work, cite the version you used and this build's commit, along with the exact model checkpoint.

@software{drowse,
  author = {{a9lim} and {treetown}},
  title = {Drowse},
  year = {2026},
  version = {6.0.1},
  commit = {b4ea6eb15977394c60f9edededa198344c21dae3},
  url = {https://github.com/stdlogits/drowse},
}

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