repulsive

adjective 3 senses

offensive to the mind

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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1 Your word measured

“an abhorrent deed”

adjective 3 senses 5 synonyms 1 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 rep ulsive 2 tokens
Mistral 7B rep uls ive 3 tokens
Qwen3 8B rep ulsive 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 repulsive 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 antonyms measured

attractive is the dictionary opposite of repulsive, yet this model puts it closer than every one of the 1 synonym it can score. Opposites share the sentences a word lives in, so cosine alone cannot tell them apart - which is why the dictionary seeds this list rather than the geometry.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to repulsive. 1 of 5 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits repulsive 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

obscene0.07 abhorrent detestable repugnant hideous

Dictionary antonyms measured

attractive is the dictionary opposite of repulsive, yet this model puts it closer than every one of the 1 synonym it can score. Opposites share the sentences a word lives in, so cosine alone cannot tell them apart - which is why the dictionary seeds this list rather than the geometry.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to repulsive. 1 of 5 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits repulsive into 3 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

obscene0.09 abhorrent detestable repugnant hideous

Dictionary antonyms measured

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to repulsive. 1 of 5 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 repulsive 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 repulsive 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 repulsive into 3 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 repulsive 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 repulsive. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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

This model splits repulsive into 3 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 repulsive. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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