The edge between a word and a symbol is where the number belongs - and arguably it should be a time series of numbers. In the vector view of the world, the dime

The edge between a word and a symbol is where the number belongs - and arguably it should be a time series of numbers. In the vector view of the world, the dimensions of the vector are symbols - the number in a particular slot for a word vector is the number on the edge between the word and the symbol. But the "symbol" represented by a dimension may be a compound or quite abstract concept, it may not map trivially to a single word.