acicate

noun 5 senses

a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

acicate is Spanish for prod, and every measurement below was made on that English word. Definitions come from English WordNet; Open Multilingual WordNet supplies the Spanish headword, not a Spanish definition.

also covers spurs spur urging
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Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured

“the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves”

noun 5 senses 14 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
Qwen3 8B ac icate 2 tokens
DeepSeek V3 ac icate 2 tokens
Mistral 7B ac icate 2 tokens

This panel splits acicate itself, not prod — a tokenizer does not care what language it is fed. It is the only panel here that does.

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

poke0.07 dig0.06 stab0.06 spur0.03 urging0.00 goad goading prodding spurring nudge poke at incite egg on jab

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to prod. 5 of 14 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

poke0.12 dig0.09 stab0.09 spur0.09 urging0.04 goad goading prodding spurring nudge poke at incite egg on jab

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to prod. 5 of 14 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

stab0.13 dig0.11 urging0.03 poke0.03 spur0.01 goad goading prodding spurring nudge poke at incite egg on jab

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to prod. 5 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
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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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These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to prod. 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 prod. 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 prod. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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