Meaning Has More Than Three Numbers

Why would meaning stop at three? Last month we went looking for Charles Osgood’s 1957 semantic differential inside a small language model, and found it: Evaluation , Potency , and Activity , recovered as three nearly-perpendicular directions in the hidden states of SmolLM2-1.7B, kept separate just as Osgood’s factor analysis insisted. That post ended with a tidy result and an untidy question.…