scattered

verb 8 senses

to cause to separate and go in different directions

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1 Your word measured

“She waved her hand and scattered the crowds”

verb 8 senses 17 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 scattered 1 token
Mistral 7B scattered 1 token
Qwen3 8B scattered 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 synonyms measured

scatter0.13 spread0.08 dust0.08 sprinkle0.06 disconnected0.05 dot0.04 confused0.03 disperse dissipate dispel break up spread out disjointed disordered garbled illogical unconnected

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to scattered, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 7 of 17 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to scattered, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 7 of 17 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

scatter0.25 spread0.17 sprinkle0.10 confused0.09 disconnected0.09 dust0.06 dot0.05 disperse dissipate dispel break up spread out disjointed disordered garbled illogical unconnected

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to scattered, 2 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 7 of 17 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
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 scattered. 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 scattered. 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 scattered. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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