カラー

noun 15 senses

a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

カラー is Japanese for color, and every measurement below was made on that English word. Definitions come from English WordNet; Open Multilingual WordNet supplies the Japanese headword, not a Japanese definition.

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DeepSeek V3
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Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured

“a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light”

noun 15 senses 23 synonyms 3 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
Qwen3 8B byte byte ラー 3 tokens

2 of those are a raw byte rather than a character: Qwen3 8B splits this word below the character, so no single token it sees is readable.

DeepSeek V3 ラー 2 tokens
Mistral 7B 3 tokens

This panel splits カラー itself, not color — 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

colour0.39 coloring0.12 gloss0.07 colouring vividness coloration colouration people of color people of colour semblance coloring material colouring material colorize colorise colourise colourize color in colour in tinge distort emblazon discolor discolour

Dictionary antonyms measured

colorlessness discolor black-and-white

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to color, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 23 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

colour0.54 coloring0.27 gloss0.07 colouring vividness coloration colouration people of color people of colour semblance coloring material colouring material colorize colorise colourise colourize color in colour in tinge distort emblazon discolor discolour

Dictionary antonyms measured

colorlessness discolor black-and-white

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to color, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 23 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

coloring0.86 colour0.61 gloss0.08 colouring vividness coloration colouration people of color people of colour semblance coloring material colouring material colorize colorise colourise colourize color in colour in tinge distort emblazon discolor discolour

Dictionary antonyms measured

colorlessness discolor black-and-white

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to color, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 3 of 23 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 color. 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 color. 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 color. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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