“hundreds of people attended his funeral”
Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
告別式 is Japanese for funeral, 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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“hundreds of people attended his funeral”
Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.
3 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.
This panel splits 告別式 itself, not funeral — 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.
WordNet lists none for this word.
Shade shows how close the model puts each word to funeral.
WordNet lists none for this word.
Shade shows how close the model puts each word to funeral.
WordNet lists none for this word.
Shade shows how close the model puts each word to funeral.
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.
Scores are projections onto axes we defined from anchor words, not labels the model assigns.
These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to funeral. 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 funeral. 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 funeral. That gap is the model’s own learned association.
These are statistical associations in the training data, not the model thinking.