lotus

noun 3 senses

native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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1 Your word measured
noun 3 senses 8 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 lotus 1 token
Mistral 7B lot us 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B lot us 2 tokens

This is the tokenizer splitting text, not the model understanding it.

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

This model splits lotus 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

Indian lotus sacred lotus Nelumbo nucifera genus Lotus white lotus Egyptian water lily white lily Nymphaea lotus

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to lotus. 0 of 8 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

Indian lotus sacred lotus Nelumbo nucifera genus Lotus white lotus Egyptian water lily white lily Nymphaea lotus

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to lotus. 0 of 8 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits lotus 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

Indian lotus sacred lotus Nelumbo nucifera genus Lotus white lotus Egyptian water lily white lily Nymphaea lotus

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to lotus. 0 of 8 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
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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

This model splits lotus 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
Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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

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

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