How AI reads lb (French)

1 Your word measured

“he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds”

noun 22 senses 32 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured

Qwen3 8B lb 1 token

DeepSeek V3 lb 1 token

Mistral 7B lb 1 token

This panel splits lb itself, not pounds — 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

Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek V3

Mistral 7B

The model’s neighbours

pound0.22 lbs0.17 pounder0.16 miles0.15 ounces0.15 gallons0.13 inches0.13 meters0.13

Dictionary synonyms measured

pound0.22 Pound0.22 pounding0.09 lumber0.05 punt0.04 hammer0.03 ram0.02 beat0.01 poke0.01 quid0.01 lb British pound British pound sterling pound sterling Syrian pound Sudanese pound Lebanese pound Irish pound Irish punt Egyptian pound Cypriot pound lbf. Ezra Pound Ezra Loomis Pound

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to pounds, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 10 of 32 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

The model’s neighbours

pound0.52 pounder0.38 lbs0.37 ounces0.31 dollars0.28 miles0.27 inches0.27 pounding0.26

Dictionary synonyms measured

pound0.52 Pound0.52 pounding0.26 quid0.11 hammer0.11 lumber0.10 beat0.10 punt0.06 poke0.03 ram0.03 lb British pound British pound sterling pound sterling Syrian pound Sudanese pound Lebanese pound Irish pound Irish punt Egyptian pound Cypriot pound lbf. Ezra Pound Ezra Loomis Pound

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to pounds, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 10 of 32 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

The model’s neighbours

pound0.38 pounding0.34 pounder0.32 dollars0.25 inches0.24 miles0.22 feet0.20 acres0.19

Dictionary synonyms measured

pound0.38 Pound0.38 pounding0.34 punt0.09 hammer0.08 lumber0.06 beat0.06 quid0.03 ram0.02 poke0.02 lb British pound British pound sterling pound sterling Syrian pound Sudanese pound Lebanese pound Irish pound Irish punt Egyptian pound Cypriot pound lbf. Ezra Pound Ezra Loomis Pound

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to pounds, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 10 of 32 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

Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek V3

Mistral 7B

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

Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek V3

Mistral 7B

grams0.124 kilogram0.122 hours0.118 percent0.117 pieces0.114

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

grams0.261 yards0.234 gallons0.230 feet0.230 weight0.228

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

weight0.181 yards0.180 hours0.171 compounds0.165 kilometers0.165

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

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