dread

noun 3 senses

fearful expectation or anticipation

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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1 Your word measured

“the student looked around the examination room with apprehension”

noun 3 senses 14 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

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

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

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
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DeepSeek V3
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Dictionary synonyms measured

fear0.13 frightening0.09 terrible0.08 awful0.08 dire0.07 apprehension apprehensiveness direful dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome horrendous horrific

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to dread, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 5 of 14 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

fear0.26 awful0.16 terrible0.13 dire0.12 frightening0.12 apprehension apprehensiveness direful dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome horrendous horrific

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to dread, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 5 of 14 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

fear0.20 terrible0.15 awful0.15 frightening0.12 dire0.11 apprehension apprehensiveness direful dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome horrendous horrific

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to dread, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 5 of 14 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
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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
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 dread. 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 dread. 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 dread. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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