retiring

verb 14 senses

go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position

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1 Your word measured

“He retired at age 68”

verb 14 senses 25 synonyms 3 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 retiring 1 token
Mistral 7B ret iring 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B retiring 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 synonyms measured

retire0.20 preceding0.05 withdraw0.05 past0.03 retreat0.03 bed0.02 pull away draw back recede pull back move back adjourn put out strike out go to bed turn in crawl in kip down hit the hay hit the sack sack out go to sleep unassuming reticent

Dictionary antonyms measured

advance0.02 get up turn out

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to retiring, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 6 of 25 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

retire0.57 retreat0.19 withdraw0.18 preceding0.08 past0.03 bed0.02 pull away draw back recede pull back move back adjourn put out strike out go to bed turn in crawl in kip down hit the hay hit the sack sack out go to sleep unassuming reticent

Dictionary antonyms measured

advance0.02 get up turn out

advance is the dictionary opposite of retiring, yet this model puts it closer than 1 of the 6 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 retiring, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 6 of 25 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits retiring 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.

Dictionary synonyms measured

retire0.19 retreat0.12 preceding0.08 withdraw0.07 bed0.05 past0.02 pull away draw back recede pull back move back adjourn put out strike out go to bed turn in crawl in kip down hit the hay hit the sack sack out go to sleep unassuming reticent

Dictionary antonyms measured

advance0.06 get up turn out

advance is the dictionary opposite of retiring, yet this model puts it closer than 2 of the 6 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 retiring. 6 of 25 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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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 retiring 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
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 retiring. 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 retiring. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

This model splits retiring 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 retiring. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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