profiling

noun 3 senses

recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people

English hacer un perfil profilage 日本語 中文
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Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured
noun 3 senses 1 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 profiling 1 token
Mistral 7B prof iling 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B profiling 1 token

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

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
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Shade shows how close the model puts each word to profiling.

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

This model splits profiling into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to profiling.

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

This model splits profiling into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

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

This model splits profiling into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to profiling. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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