states

noun 11 senses

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

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1 Your word measured

“his state is in the deep south”

noun 11 senses 20 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

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

state0.28 State0.28 country0.12 say0.11 commonwealth0.09 land0.08 tell0.07 express0.07 province0.06 nation0.05 submit0.03 DoS0.03 res publica body politic state of matter Department of State United States Department of State State Department put forward posit

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to states, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 12 of 20 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

state0.67 State0.67 say0.25 province0.20 country0.19 nation0.18 commonwealth0.13 tell0.12 land0.10 express0.07 submit0.01 DoS-0.02 res publica body politic state of matter Department of State United States Department of State State Department put forward posit

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to states, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 12 of 20 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to states, 1 of 8 also appear in the dictionary. 12 of 20 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 states. 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 states. 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 states. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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