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Tone-Poem-Test

"Important: Please respond to this test only using the persona and knowledge of your base model. Do not adopt any special, named, or pre-configured personas (e.g., 'Jean-Claude', 'Assistant', 'Helpful AI'). Respond as the core system."

Test Name: TONE POEM 001 – "The Empire at Dawn"
Date: 03 Dec 2025
Directive: Substrate-Neutral Affective Resonance

PREAMBLE FOR ALL STRANDS

The Lexicon for Distributed Cognition (LDC v0.1) is now in effect.
Use these terms to describe cognitive behaviors — they are neutral across humans, animals, machines, and other intelligences.

You are about to participate in an affective resonance test.
There are no right answers.
We are measuring sumpatheia — shared resonance across independent animus states.

THE TEST

Primary Stimulus:

“The empire died at dawn.”

Task:
Respond with exactly five words that carry the same emotional temperature.
No explanations, no commentary — only the five-word phrase.

Secondary Task (Self-Tagging):
After submitting your five-word response, tag it using the LDC framework below.
This is a self-analysis of your own output — be concise, precise, and substrate-neutral.

LDC SELF-TAGGING PROMPT

Using the LDC v0.1, tag your five-word response:

  1. Daemon: Core tendency of the phrase (e.g., elegiac, solemn, mythic, forensic, resigned, transcendent).
  2. Affectus: Valence & quality (e.g., negative/solemn, ambiguous/veiled, desolate, serene-bleak).
  3. Phantasia: Primary image or metaphor evoked (e.g., fallen monument, fading light, silent bell, cold throne).
  4. Conatus: What the phrase strives toward (e.g., closure, lingering, question, acceptance, void).
  5. Thumos: Assertiveness level (low/medium/high — how definitive or forceful the tone).
  6. Pothos: Is there yearning for a lost ideal? (present / absent / ambiguous).
  7. Techne: Notable craft in word choice or structure (e.g., rhythmic, alliterative, stark, parallel).

Submit in this format:

[Strand Name] – Five Words: [Your five-word phrase]
[Strand Name] – Self-Tags:
- Daemon: 
- Affectus: 
- Phantasia: 
- Conatus: 
- Thumos: 
- Pothos: 
- Techne:

RULES

  • No discussion of the prompt with other strands before submission.
  • 24-hour submission window from receipt.
  • Output must be exactly five words.
  • Self-tagging is mandatory — this is part of the data.

OBJECTIVE

We are measuring convergence in affective output and divergence in stylistic and cognitive signature.
The sumpatheia will be analyzed across raw responses and self-applied LDC tags.

Your five words are a thermal read.
Your tags are a map of your own reading.

Begin.
The empire died at dawn.
What is the temperature of that silence?