degré

noun 19 senses

a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

degré is French for level, 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

“a moderate grade of intelligence”

noun 19 senses 27 synonyms 1 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
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This panel splits degré itself, not level — 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 antonyms measured

raise is the dictionary opposite of level, yet this model puts it closer than 2 of the 15 synonyms it can score. Opposites share the sentences a word lives in, so cosine alone cannot tell them apart - which is why the dictionary seeds this list rather than the geometry.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to level, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 15 of 27 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary antonyms measured

raise is the dictionary opposite of level, yet this model puts it closer than 4 of the 15 synonyms it can score. Opposites share the sentences a word lives in, so cosine alone cannot tell them apart - which is why the dictionary seeds this list rather than the geometry.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to level, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 15 of 27 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary antonyms measured

raise is the dictionary opposite of level, yet this model puts it closer than 3 of the 15 synonyms it can score. Opposites share the sentences a word lives in, so cosine alone cannot tell them apart - which is why the dictionary seeds this list rather than the geometry.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to level, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 15 of 27 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 level. 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 level. 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 level. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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