terrorism

noun 1 sense

the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

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1 Your word measured
noun 1 sense 2 synonyms

Definitions come from WordNet, a hand-curated dictionary.

2 To an AI, it's pieces measured
DeepSeek V3 terrorism 1 token
Mistral 7B terror ism 2 tokens
Qwen3 8B terrorism 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

act of terrorism terrorist act

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to terrorism. 0 of 2 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

Dictionary synonyms measured

act of terrorism terrorist act

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to terrorism. 0 of 2 dictionary synonyms are in this build; the rest have no vector to compare yet.

This model splits terrorism 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.

Shade shows how close the model puts each word to terrorism. 0 of 2 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 terrorism 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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These sit just outside the closest neighbours in panel 3, and no dictionary lists any of them as related to terrorism. 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 terrorism. That gap is the model’s own learned association.

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

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