selfish

adjective 1 sense

concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; - Maria Weston Chapman

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1 Your word measured

“Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights”

adjective 1 sense 0 synonyms 1 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

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

WordNet lists none for this word.

Dictionary antonyms measured

unselfish

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

Dictionary synonyms measured

WordNet lists none for this word.

Dictionary antonyms measured

unselfish

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

Dictionary synonyms measured

WordNet lists none for this word.

Dictionary antonyms measured

unselfish

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

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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DeepSeek V3
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These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to selfish. 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 selfish. 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 selfish. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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