reversal

noun 8 senses

a change from one state to the opposite state

Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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1 Your word measured

“there was a reversal of autonomic function”

noun 8 senses 14 synonyms 1 antonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 reversal 1 token
Mistral 7B revers al 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B reversal 1 token

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

3 Synonyms, antonyms, and the AI measured
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Dictionary antonyms measured

affirmation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to reversal. 6 of 14 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

reverse0.29 turnaround0.16 reversion0.12 setback0.10 transposition0.07 blow0.04 black eye turn around change of mind flip-flop turnabout about-face volte-face policy change

Dictionary antonyms measured

affirmation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to reversal, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 6 of 14 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits reversal 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

affirmation

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to reversal. 6 of 14 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
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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 reversal 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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DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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

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

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