poisson-chat

noun 3 senses

flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed

poisson-chat is French for catfish, 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 3 senses 4 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
Qwen3 8B po isson -chat 3 tokens
DeepSeek V3 po isson -ch at 4 tokens
Mistral 7B po isson - chat 4 tokens

This panel splits poisson-chat itself, not catfish — 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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This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

Dictionary synonyms measured

mudcat wolffish wolf fish siluriform fish

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to catfish. 0 of 4 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

Dictionary synonyms measured

mudcat wolffish wolf fish siluriform fish

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to catfish. 0 of 4 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

Dictionary synonyms measured

mudcat wolffish wolf fish siluriform fish

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to catfish. 0 of 4 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
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This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
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This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

rare common
concrete abstract
casual formal
everyday technical
negative positive
mild intense
powerless powerful
small big

This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

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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This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

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

This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

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

This model splits catfish into 2 pieces, so it has no vector of its own here: this is the average of its fragments, and the results below are correspondingly rough.

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

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