severely

adverb 3 senses

to a severe or serious degree

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1 Your word measured

“fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated”

adverb 3 senses 5 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 severely 1 token
Mistral 7B severely 1 token
Qwen3 8B severely 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 severely, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 5 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to severely, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 5 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to severely, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 5 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
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
Mistral 7B

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

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