reliance

noun 2 senses

certainty based on past experience

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1 Your word measured

“he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists”

noun 2 senses 1 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 reliance 1 token
Mistral 7B rel iance 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B reliance 1 token

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 reliance.

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

This model splits reliance 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 reliance.

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 reliance 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 reliance. 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 reliance. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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

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