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We apply latent space cartography — the systematic mapping of structure in pre-trained embedding spaces (Liu et al., 2019) — to three general-purpose text embedding models using Wikidata knowledge graph triples as probes.

Standard embedding-based matching collapses multi-dimensional similarity into a single cosine score, conflating dimensions that users need to query independently. We show that combining directional selection (maximizing similarity along a specified target direction) with orthogonal projection (removing confounding dimensions) produces a three-part matching score that consistently outperforms both naive cosine similarity and projection-alone baselines.