encourage

verb 3 senses

contribute to the progress or growth of

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1 Your word measured

“I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom”

verb 3 senses 4 synonyms 1 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
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Mistral 7B encourage 1 token
Qwen3 8B encourage 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 antonyms measured

discourage is the dictionary opposite of encourage, yet this model puts it closer than 3 of the 4 synonyms it can score. Opposites share the sentences a word lives in, so cosine alone cannot tell them apart - which is why the dictionary seeds this list rather than the geometry.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to encourage, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary.

Dictionary antonyms measured

discourage is the dictionary opposite of encourage, yet this model puts it closer than every one of the 4 synonyms it can score. Opposites share the sentences a word lives in, so cosine alone cannot tell them apart - which is why the dictionary seeds this list rather than the geometry.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to encourage, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary.

Dictionary antonyms measured

discourage is the dictionary opposite of encourage, yet this model puts it closer than every one of the 4 synonyms it can score. Opposites share the sentences a word lives in, so cosine alone cannot tell them apart - which is why the dictionary seeds this list rather than the geometry.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to encourage, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary.

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 encourage. 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 encourage. 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 encourage. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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