In the context of Large Language Models (LLMs), a "token" can refer to various units of text, and it can often be a word, part of a word, or even a character. Among the listed options, the closest choice to what might be considered a token is:
**3. around 4 characters.**
This is because tokens can sometimes be of variable length and often average around 4 characters, especially in models like GPT-3 and others that use subword tokenization.