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A modern transformer block: 6 stages from input to output.
What you're seeing
Pre-norm architecture: norm first, then sub-block, then residual add. Repeat for FFN. Same pattern at every layer; L layers stacked = full transformer.
★ KEY TAKEAWAY
Every modern transformer block is pre-norm + attention + residual + pre-norm + FFN + residual. Same pattern, L times.
▶ WHAT TO TRY
- Click Next stage to walk through one block in sequence.
- This pattern is used in Llama, Mistral, Phi, Qwen, Gemma — all of them.