depression

noun 10 senses

a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

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1 Your word measured
noun 10 senses 9 synonyms 2 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 depression 1 token
Mistral 7B depression 1 token
Qwen3 8B depression 1 token

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

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
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Dictionary synonyms measured

impression0.06 low0.04 imprint0.03 slump economic crisis natural depression Great Depression depressive disorder clinical depression

Dictionary antonyms measured

elation natural elevation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to depression. 3 of 9 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

impression0.15 low0.05 imprint0.02 slump economic crisis natural depression Great Depression depressive disorder clinical depression

Dictionary antonyms measured

elation natural elevation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to depression. 3 of 9 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

low0.08 impression0.08 imprint0.02 slump economic crisis natural depression Great Depression depressive disorder clinical depression

Dictionary antonyms measured

elation natural elevation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to depression. 3 of 9 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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These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to depression. 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 depression. 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 depression. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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