coussin

noun 2 senses

a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person

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

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1 Your word measured
noun 2 senses 1 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
Qwen3 8B cou ss in 3 tokens
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This panel splits coussin itself, not pillow — 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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Shade shows how close the model puts each word to pillow.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to pillow.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to pillow.

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 pillow. 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 pillow. 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 pillow. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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