わかる

verb 5 senses

know and comprehend the nature or meaning of

わかる is Japanese for understand, and every measurement below was made on that English word. Definitions come from English WordNet; Open Multilingual WordNet supplies the Japanese headword, not a Japanese definition.

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured

“She did not understand her husband”

verb 5 senses 11 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
Qwen3 8B byte byte かる 3 tokens

2 of those are a raw byte rather than a character: Qwen3 8B splits this word below the character, so no single token it sees is readable.

DeepSeek V3 かる 2 tokens
Mistral 7B 3 tokens

This panel splits わかる itself, not understand — a tokenizer does not care what language it is fed. It is the only panel here that does.

This is the tokenizer splitting text, not the model understanding it.

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
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Shade shows how close the model puts each word to understand. 6 of 11 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to understand. 6 of 11 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to understand. 6 of 11 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Model neighbours are distributional, not dictionary synonyms. Two words can be close because they appear in similar sentences, which is why an antonym can outscore a synonym here.

4 Its personality measured
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rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big
rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big
rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big

Scores are projections onto axes we defined from anchor words, not labels the model assigns.

5 Surprising neighbours measured
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DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to understand. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to understand. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to understand. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

These are statistical associations in the training data, not the model thinking.