allele

noun 1 sense

(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character

English Español allèle 対立遺伝子 中文
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Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured

“some alleles are dominant over others”

noun 1 sense 1 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 allele 1 token
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This is the tokenizer splitting text, not the model understanding it.

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
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Shade shows how close the model puts each word to allele. 0 of 1 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to allele. 0 of 1 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits allele 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

allelomorph

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to allele. 0 of 1 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

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

This model splits allele 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 allele. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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