polk

noun 1 sense

11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)

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1 Your word measured
noun 1 sense 4 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 pol k 2 tokens
Mistral 7B pol k 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B pol k 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 polk 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

James Polk James K. Polk James Knox Polk President Polk

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to polk. 0 of 4 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits polk 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

James Polk James K. Polk James Knox Polk President Polk

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to polk. 0 of 4 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits polk 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

James Polk James K. Polk James Knox Polk President Polk

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to polk. 0 of 4 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
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This model splits polk 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 polk 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 polk 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 polk 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 polk. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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

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

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