choke

noun 16 senses

a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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

1 Your word measured
noun 16 senses 33 synonyms 2 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 choke 1 token
Mistral 7B cho ke 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B choke 1 token

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

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

Dictionary synonyms measured

gag0.08 throttle0.07 die0.07 stifle0.06 foul0.05 expire0.05 conk0.04 pass0.03 exit0.02 choke coil choking coil fret scrag strangle suffocate clog choke off clog up back up congest asphyxiate decease perish go

Dictionary antonyms measured

unclog be born

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to choke. 9 of 33 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

throttle0.21 gag0.18 stifle0.07 expire0.06 pass0.06 foul0.04 die0.04 exit0.03 conk0.01 choke coil choking coil fret scrag strangle suffocate clog choke off clog up back up congest asphyxiate decease perish go

Dictionary antonyms measured

unclog be born

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to choke, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 9 of 33 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits choke into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

Dictionary synonyms measured

conk0.15 throttle0.15 stifle0.11 expire0.09 pass0.07 gag0.07 foul0.06 die0.05 exit0.04 choke coil choking coil fret scrag strangle suffocate clog choke off clog up back up congest asphyxiate decease perish go

Dictionary antonyms measured

unclog be born

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to choke. 9 of 33 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
Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B
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

This model splits choke into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

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
Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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

This model splits choke into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

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

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