spruce

noun 5 senses

light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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

1 Your word measured
noun 5 senses 14 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 spruce 1 token
Mistral 7B sp ru ce 3 tokens
Qwen3 8B spr uce 2 tokens

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

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

This model splits spruce 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

spruce up titivate tittivate smarten up slick up spiff up dapper dashing jaunty natty raffish rakish spiffy snappy

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to spruce. 0 of 14 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

spruce up titivate tittivate smarten up slick up spiff up dapper dashing jaunty natty raffish rakish spiffy snappy

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to spruce. 0 of 14 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits spruce into 3 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

spruce up titivate tittivate smarten up slick up spiff up dapper dashing jaunty natty raffish rakish spiffy snappy

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to spruce. 0 of 14 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
Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

This model splits spruce 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
rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big

This model splits spruce into 3 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

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

This model splits spruce into 3 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 spruce. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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