How AI reads rally

1 Your word measured

noun 10 senses 23 synonyms 1 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured

DeepSeek V3 rally 1 token

Mistral 7B rally 1 token

Qwen3 8B rally 1 token

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

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured

Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek V3

Mistral 7B

The model’s neighbours

ally0.15 bully0.12 arena0.12 allylic0.12 ranch0.12 allies0.12 march0.11 unity0.11

Dictionary synonyms measured

ride0.09 rebound0.09 bait0.07 rag0.07 tease0.04 exchange0.02 cod0.01 mass meeting rallying beat up drum up call up mobilize mobilise muster summon come up muster up razz tantalize tantalise taunt twit

Dictionary antonyms measured

demobilize

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to rally. 7 of 23 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

The model’s neighbours

tally0.18 ally0.18 gather0.18 garner0.17 gathering0.17 relay0.16 unite0.16 lobby0.15

Dictionary synonyms measured

rebound0.12 ride0.12 bait0.06 rag0.06 tease0.04 exchange0.03 cod0.01 mass meeting rallying beat up drum up call up mobilize mobilise muster summon come up muster up razz tantalize tantalise taunt twit

Dictionary antonyms measured

demobilize

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to rally. 7 of 23 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

The model’s neighbours

incidentally0.17 march0.17 nationally0.16 race0.16 marching0.16 internally0.15 protest0.15 environmentally0.15

Dictionary synonyms measured

ride0.12 rebound0.06 rag0.06 exchange0.04 cod0.04 tease0.03 bait0.01 mass meeting rallying beat up drum up call up mobilize mobilise muster summon come up muster up razz tantalize tantalise taunt twit

Dictionary antonyms measured

demobilize

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to rally. 7 of 23 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

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

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

dads0.113 tally0.108 tie0.107 kayak0.107 tactics0.106

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

riot0.149 revival0.149 gathered0.147 surge0.145 march0.141

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

protests0.144 ramp0.143 professionally0.142 scientifically0.142 culturally0.141

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

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