slow

verb 11 senses

lose velocity; move more slowly

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured

“The car decelerated”

verb 11 senses 23 synonyms 3 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

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

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

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
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DeepSeek V3
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Dictionary synonyms measured

slowly0.14 easy0.10 dense0.10 dumb0.08 dull0.08 slack0.08 dim0.07 boring0.06 behind0.05 tedious0.04 decelerate slow down slow up retard slacken obtuse deadening ho-hum irksome tiresome wearisome sluggish tardily

Dictionary antonyms measured

fast is the dictionary opposite of slow, yet this model puts it closer than 9 of the 10 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 slow, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 10 of 23 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

slowly0.40 easy0.20 dull0.18 dumb0.14 dim0.12 slack0.11 tedious0.11 boring0.10 dense0.08 behind0.07 decelerate slow down slow up retard slacken obtuse deadening ho-hum irksome tiresome wearisome sluggish tardily

Dictionary antonyms measured

fast is the dictionary opposite of slow, yet this model puts it closer than 9 of the 10 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 slow, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 10 of 23 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

slowly0.26 dull0.16 easy0.15 dumb0.14 dim0.14 slack0.11 dense0.09 boring0.08 tedious0.07 behind0.06 decelerate slow down slow up retard slacken obtuse deadening ho-hum irksome tiresome wearisome sluggish tardily

Dictionary antonyms measured

fast is the dictionary opposite of slow, yet this model puts it closer than 9 of the 10 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 slow, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 10 of 23 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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DeepSeek V3
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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
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 slow. 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 slow. 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 slow. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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