sol

noun 7 senses

the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system

sol is Spanish for sun, 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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Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured

“the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system”

noun 7 senses 9 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
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Mistral 7B sol 1 token

This panel splits sol itself, not sun — 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

sunlight0.12 sunshine0.09 Sunday0.06 Lord's Day Dominicus sunbathe insolate solarize solarise

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to sun. 3 of 9 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

sunlight0.32 sunshine0.26 Sunday0.15 Lord's Day Dominicus sunbathe insolate solarize solarise

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to sun, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 9 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

sunshine0.69 sunlight0.27 Sunday0.11 Lord's Day Dominicus sunbathe insolate solarize solarise

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to sun. 3 of 9 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 sun. 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 sun. 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 sun. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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