Embedding Space Navigator

This tool needs JavaScript. It shows how a language model picks each next word by nearness in a 3D map of words, so you can see why a fluent answer can still be wrong.

Watch a prompt steer an AI through Topic

The model doesn't look up true answers. It moves toward ideas that sit near your words.

Vague

What should I do about security?

Read the input
Find the target
Pick each word ↺
Done

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Security (target)
Networking
Development
Governance

TimelineBrightnessSpeed

For the nerds

More settings to play with

How the model picks

Temperature 0.20At 0 the model always takes its most likely word. Higher, it sometimes takes a less likely one, so the same prompt can give a different answer and wander off target. Bubbles also get wider.Candidates weighed 5How many next words it considers each time (often called top-k).Conversation memory 4 turnsHow many earlier turns the chat keeps in its context window.

The picture

Brightness 70%Bubble size 100%Number of dots Word labels Camera follows each new word Slowly turn the cloud when idle

What's simplified

Real models place words in thousands of dimensions; this squeezes them into three, and the positions here are placed by hand. Real models also don't use bubbles: they weigh every earlier word against every other (attention). The bubbles and the re-read pulse stand in for that.

A teaching model, not a measurement. It shows why context steers an AI's answer. It doesn't show how a real model computes.

Your data stays with you. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you pick is sent to or stored on our server. (The site uses standard analytics to count page visits.)

Version 1.0 · what's new

Version 1.0 · 2026-11-02

First public release, after four review rounds.

Pick a topic set (cybersecurity by default) in the tool or with ?topic= in the link.
Each answer word feeds back into the input, and the aim is worked out again before every pick.
Themed 3D clouds, a follow camera, phases and a conversation mode.
A brightness slider in the player bar.