firme

adjective 3 senses

characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion

firme is Spanish for candid, 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.

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1 Your word measured

“blunt talking and straight shooting”

adjective 3 senses 10 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

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

This panel splits firme itself, not candid — 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

frank0.10 blunt0.07 open0.02 forthright free-spoken outspoken plainspoken point-blank straight-from-the-shoulder heart-to-heart

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to candid, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 10 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

frank0.27 blunt0.16 open0.07 forthright free-spoken outspoken plainspoken point-blank straight-from-the-shoulder heart-to-heart

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to candid, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 10 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

frank0.19 blunt0.08 open0.05 forthright free-spoken outspoken plainspoken point-blank straight-from-the-shoulder heart-to-heart

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to candid, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 10 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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Mistral 7B

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

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