doux

noun 16 senses

English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)

doux is French for sweet, 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.

also covers mild sweets fresh soft
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Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured
noun 16 senses 27 synonyms 3 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
Qwen3 8B dou x 2 tokens
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This panel splits doux itself, not sweet — 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

dessert0.08 fresh0.05 scented0.05 Henry Sweet afters confection sweetness sugariness angelic angelical cherubic seraphic dulcet honeyed mellifluous mellisonant gratifying odoriferous odorous perfumed sweet-scented sweet-smelling unfermented sugared

Dictionary antonyms measured

sour is the dictionary opposite of sweet, yet this model puts it closer than every one of the 3 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 sweet. 3 of 27 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

fresh0.19 dessert0.14 scented0.03 Henry Sweet afters confection sweetness sugariness angelic angelical cherubic seraphic dulcet honeyed mellifluous mellisonant gratifying odoriferous odorous perfumed sweet-scented sweet-smelling unfermented sugared

Dictionary antonyms measured

sour is the dictionary opposite of sweet, yet this model puts it closer than 2 of the 3 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 sweet. 3 of 27 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

fresh0.13 dessert0.09 scented0.03 Henry Sweet afters confection sweetness sugariness angelic angelical cherubic seraphic dulcet honeyed mellifluous mellisonant gratifying odoriferous odorous perfumed sweet-scented sweet-smelling unfermented sugared

Dictionary antonyms measured

sour is the dictionary opposite of sweet, yet this model puts it closer than every one of the 3 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 sweet. 3 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 sweet. 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 sweet. 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 sweet. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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