dog

noun 8 senses

a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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

1 Your word measured

“the dog barked all night”

noun 8 senses 29 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

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

hound0.07 tag0.07 track0.06 tail0.06 click0.04 chase0.03 heel0.03 frank0.02 cad0.02 trail0.01 domestic dog Canis familiaris frump bounder blackguard frankfurter hotdog hot dog wiener wienerwurst weenie pawl detent andiron

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to dog. 10 of 29 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

tag0.20 hound0.14 tail0.14 click0.08 track0.06 cad0.06 trail0.05 heel0.03 chase0.03 frank0.01 domestic dog Canis familiaris frump bounder blackguard frankfurter hotdog hot dog wiener wienerwurst weenie pawl detent andiron

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to dog. 10 of 29 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

track0.09 tag0.09 trail0.09 hound0.07 tail0.07 cad0.07 heel0.06 frank0.06 chase0.05 click0.04 domestic dog Canis familiaris frump bounder blackguard frankfurter hotdog hot dog wiener wienerwurst weenie pawl detent andiron

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to dog. 10 of 29 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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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
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 dog. 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 dog. 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 dog. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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