lady

noun 3 senses

a polite name for any woman

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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1 Your word measured

“a nice lady at the library helped me”

noun 3 senses 6 synonyms 2 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

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

Dictionary synonyms measured

dame0.14 madam0.07 ma'am gentlewoman noblewoman peeress

Dictionary antonyms measured

Lord0.10 nobleman

Lord is the dictionary opposite of lady, yet this model puts it closer than 1 of the 2 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 lady, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 2 of 6 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

dame0.09 madam0.08 ma'am gentlewoman noblewoman peeress

Dictionary antonyms measured

Lord0.24 nobleman

Lord is the dictionary opposite of lady, yet this model puts it closer than every one of the 2 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 lady. 2 of 6 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

madam0.11 dame0.05 ma'am gentlewoman noblewoman peeress

Dictionary antonyms measured

Lord0.19 nobleman

Lord is the dictionary opposite of lady, yet this model puts it closer than every one of the 2 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 lady. 2 of 6 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 lady. 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 lady. 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 lady. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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