sock

noun 3 senses

hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee

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DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

Panels 3, 4 and 5 are computed per model. Switch to see them disagree.

1 Your word measured
noun 3 senses 12 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

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

bop0.05 bash0.03 windsock wind sock air sock air-sleeve wind sleeve wind cone drogue whop whap bonk

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to sock. 2 of 12 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

bash0.07 bop0.03 windsock wind sock air sock air-sleeve wind sleeve wind cone drogue whop whap bonk

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to sock. 2 of 12 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

bash0.03 bop0.02 windsock wind sock air sock air-sleeve wind sleeve wind cone drogue whop whap bonk

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to sock. 2 of 12 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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DeepSeek V3
Mistral 7B

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

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