perennial

noun 4 senses

(botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

Lexical record · WordNet measured

(botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more
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Representation snapshot

// qwen
dimension count = 4,096
vector norm = 1.0
mean activation = -5e-05
median activation = -0.00022
std. deviation = 0.01562

// greatest deviation from median
dimension = d3706
value = 0.06194
median = -0.00022
z-score = 3.9783σ
absolute deviation = 0.06216
// deepseek
dimension count = 7,168
vector norm = 1.0
mean activation = -3e-05
median activation = -8e-05
std. deviation = 0.01181

// greatest deviation from median
dimension = d6590
value = 0.05749
median = -8e-05
z-score = 4.8741σ
absolute deviation = 0.05757
// mistral
dimension count = 4,096
vector norm = 1.0
mean activation = -5e-05
median activation = -6e-05
std. deviation = 0.01562

// greatest deviation from median
dimension = d1387
value = 0.06379
median = -6e-05
z-score = 4.0864σ
absolute deviation = 0.06385

Semantic proximity · cosine similarity

TermCosineDistance
centennial 0.1661 0.8339
biennial 0.1538 0.8462
seasonal 0.1212 0.8788
juvenile 0.1184 0.8816
endemic 0.1148 0.8852
annual 0.1122 0.8878
perpetual 0.1111 0.8889
misdemeanor 0.1107 0.8893
TermCosineDistance
perpetual 0.3326 0.6674
centennial 0.2509 0.7491
evergreen 0.2436 0.7564
eternal 0.2303 0.7697
annual 0.2205 0.7795
permanent 0.2121 0.7879
everlasting 0.1992 0.8008
continual 0.1889 0.8111
TermCosineDistance
centennial 0.6415 0.3585
peru 0.5368 0.4632
perth 0.5235 0.4765
perry 0.5223 0.4777
perch 0.5186 0.4814
perky 0.4850 0.5150
percussion 0.4769 0.5231
perceive 0.4745 0.5255

Similarity is distributional, not a dictionary synonym label. High similarity can occur between antonyms because they occupy similar contextual environments.

Opposition candidates

TermCosinePolarity ΔScoreRelation
annual 0.1122 0.0616 0.12 weak opposition
biennial 0.1538 0.0289 0.11 weak opposition
TermCosinePolarity ΔScoreRelation
annual 0.2205 0.0023 0.11 weak opposition
biennial 0.0389 0.0333 0.05 weak opposition
TermCosinePolarity ΔScoreRelation
annual 0.1226 0.0177 0.08 weak opposition
biennial 0.1188 0.0130 0.07 weak opposition

Seeds are WordNet antonyms, ranked by embedding geometry. Opposition is never inferred from cosine distance alone: antonyms sit close, not far.

Tokenization · per model measured

ModelTokensPieces
DeepSeek V3 1 perennial
Mistral 7B 2 per · ennial
Qwen3 8B 1 perennial

Sense inventory · WordNet measured

SynsetPOSDefinitionLemmas
perennial.n.01 noun (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more n/a
perennial.a.01 adjective lasting three seasons or more n/a
perennial.s.01 adjective lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal n/a
perennial.s.02 adjective recurring again and again recurrent, repeated