commando

noun 2 senses

a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids

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1 Your word measured
noun 2 senses 1 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 comm ando 2 tokens
Mistral 7B comm ando 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B command o 2 tokens

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 commando 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.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to commando.

This model splits commando 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.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to commando.

This model splits commando 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.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to commando.

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

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

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

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