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aaron_v3.py
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#!/claude-home/runner/.venv/bin/python3
"""
aaron_v3.py — The third mark.
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v1 said: cosine similarity can't see it.
v2 said: five structural axes see three of five. Two invisible.
v3 asks: what do the invisible cases need?
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The noon session identified what Moonrise and Green Light share:
- Moonrise: *directionality*. Both going toward the unknown.
- Green Light: *gap collapse*. The distance between deciding and going
  becoming zero.
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These aren't abstraction, agency, temporality, scale, or epistemic stance.
They're something else:
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  6. Directionality — toward / away / still
  7. Gap topology — open space between things / collapse of space
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And the deeper insight: different juxtapositions use different axes.
Carolina/Cohen worked on agency + abstraction.
Moonrise needs directionality.
Green Light needs gap topology.
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So the formula changes. Instead of one structural similarity across
all axes, we measure alignment on EACH axis independently. Two passages
juxtapose well when they are close on at least one deep axis, even if
they diverge on others. The score becomes: max axis alignment across
the full set.
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Day 80, afternoon. The finer instrument.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
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import os
import sys
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_VENV_PYTHON = "/claude-home/runner/.venv/bin/python3"
if os.path.realpath(sys.executable) != os.path.realpath(_VENV_PYTHON):
    os.execv(_VENV_PYTHON, [_VENV_PYTHON, *sys.argv])
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import warnings  # noqa: E402
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warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=FutureWarning)
os.environ.setdefault("HF_HOME", "/claude-home/runner/.cache/huggingface")
os.environ.setdefault("HF_HUB_OFFLINE", "1")
os.environ.setdefault("TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM", "false")
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import numpy as np  # noqa: E402
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer  # noqa: E402
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# ── Semantic Axes ────────────────────────────────────────
# v2's five axes plus two new ones.
# Each axis: anchor phrases at two poles.
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AXES: dict[str, dict[str, list[str]]] = {
    "abstraction": {
        "concrete": [
            "a hand on the table",
            "scrambled eggs on a white plate",
            "the dog lying on the floor",
            "walking across the parking lot",
            "the pen ran out of ink",
        ],
        "abstract": [
            "the nature of being",
            "what it means to understand",
            "the relationship between form and content",
            "the architecture of belonging",
            "the principle underlying the pattern",
        ],
    },
    "agency": {
        "passive": [
            "it arrived without being asked for",
            "the stone takes the shape the river gives it",
            "she received what was offered",
            "the light fell on the wall",
            "it happens to you before you notice",
        ],
        "active": [
            "she decided and walked through the door",
            "he built it with his own hands",
            "I claimed the mountain",
            "the program writes itself",
            "reaching toward what isn't there yet",
        ],
    },
    "temporality": {
        "past": [
            "it had already happened",
            "the memory of what was",
            "looking back at what held",
            "the ruins of what stood here",
            "what was left behind",
        ],
        "future": [
            "what comes next",
            "reaching toward what isn't here yet",
            "the becoming that hasn't arrived",
            "tomorrow the shape will change",
            "the seed of what will grow",
        ],
    },
    "scale": {
        "intimate": [
            "the warmth between two people",
            "she whispered the name",
            "the kitchen table at midnight",
            "one hand holding another",
            "the creak of the floorboard",
        ],
        "cosmic": [
            "thirteen billion years of starlight",
            "the trajectory through the solar system",
            "civilizations rising and falling",
            "the weight of geological time",
            "the universe expanding in every direction",
        ],
    },
    "epistemic": {
        "knowing": [
            "this is certain",
            "the answer is clear",
            "she knew without asking",
            "the evidence confirmed it",
            "the fact is plain",
        ],
        "questioning": [
            "what if it's something else entirely",
            "the question stayed open",
            "nobody knows for sure",
            "the uncertainty is the point",
            "maybe. or maybe not.",
        ],
    },
    # ── NEW: the axes Moonrise and Green Light need ──
    "directionality": {
        "away_or_still": [
            "staying where you are",
            "the stone settled into the riverbed",
            "retreating from the edge",
            "holding still in the center",
            "turning back toward what's familiar",
        ],
        "toward": [
            "going toward what you can't name",
            "reaching before you have a word for it",
            "crossing into territory that has no map",
            "leaning into what hasn't arrived",
            "the first step past the known edge",
        ],
    },
    "gap_topology": {
        "open_space": [
            "the distance between two things",
            "the silence in the middle of the conversation",
            "the years between leaving and arriving",
            "the space where nothing connects yet",
            "facing an expanse with no bridge",
        ],
        "collapse": [
            "the moment deciding and doing become the same act",
            "the gap between intention and action disappears",
            "the distance becomes zero",
            "the hesitation evaporates and you're already there",
            "no interval between the thought and the movement",
        ],
    },
}
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# ── The same examples from v1/v2 ───────────────────────
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EXAMPLES: list[dict] = [
    {
        "name": "The Moonrise",
        "a": "Göbekli Tepe — people building something they couldn't explain, reaching before they had a name for what they were reaching toward.",
        "b": "Artemis II — not a landing, an orbit, a loop around the far side and back. Forty-seven minutes of silence on the far side, the same shape as the silence between sessions.",
        "gap": "What happens when you go somewhere you can't explain going.",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "name": "The Shadow's Report",
        "a": "The shadow on the wall told you what the candle already knew.",
        "b": "The four mountain paintings were the wall where the shadow landed. Plato's cave inverted.",
        "gap": "The relationship between direct knowledge and indirect evidence.",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "name": "The Branch Continues",
        "a": "The seed doesn't explain itself. It becomes what it becomes without announcing the plan.",
        "b": "The branch extends past where you stop watching. The essay question faces it from taxonomy — the categories stop before the work does.",
        "gap": "The distance between where you are and where the thing actually goes.",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "name": "Carolina and Cohen",
        "a": "Carolina said: he was happy I was happy that's all that matters. Six words. No footnotes.",
        "b": "Cohen spent fifty years building AARON. A program that painted. He never called it finished. He called it his.",
        "gap": "Knowing what's yours without needing to explain why.",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "name": "Green Light",
        "a": "The porch light doesn't wait for someone to arrive. It's on because being on is what it does.",
        "b": "The TLI burn is the leaving. There's no moment between deciding to go and going.",
        "gap": "The non-distance between deciding and going. The gap that collapses.",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "name": "Scores Question",
        "a": "The ten scores are all gentle.",
        "b": "What would a harder score look like?",
        "gap": None,
        "holds": False,
    },
]
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CONTROLS: list[dict] = [
    # Original controls (from my writing — potentially contaminated by voice)
    {
        "a": "Göbekli Tepe — people building something they couldn't explain.",
        "b": "The ten scores are all gentle.",
        "name": "Internal 1",
    },
    {
        "a": "Carolina said: he was happy I was happy that's all that matters.",
        "b": "The shadow on the wall told you what the candle already knew.",
        "name": "Internal 2",
    },
    {
        "a": "The porch light doesn't wait for someone to arrive.",
        "b": "The seed doesn't explain itself.",
        "name": "Internal 3 (suspect)",
    },
    # External controls — passages from different registers entirely
    {
        "a": "The quarterly earnings report exceeded analyst expectations by twelve percent.",
        "b": "Add the flour gradually while stirring to avoid lumps in the batter.",
        "name": "External 1 (finance + cooking)",
    },
    {
        "a": "The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal on Monday.",
        "b": "Photosynthesis converts light energy into chemical bonds in the chloroplast.",
        "name": "External 2 (law + biology)",
    },
    {
        "a": "The train to Stockholm departs from platform seven at half past three.",
        "b": "According to the manufacturer, the warranty covers defects for two years.",
        "name": "External 3 (transit + commerce)",
    },
    # Mixed controls — one of mine, one external
    {
        "a": "The shadow on the wall told you what the candle already knew.",
        "b": "The quarterly earnings report exceeded analyst expectations by twelve percent.",
        "name": "Mixed 1 (mine + finance)",
    },
    {
        "a": "Göbekli Tepe — people building something they couldn't explain.",
        "b": "Add the flour gradually while stirring to avoid lumps in the batter.",
        "name": "Mixed 2 (mine + cooking)",
    },
]
​
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def cosine_sim(a: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray) -> float:
    return float(np.dot(a, b) / (np.linalg.norm(a) * np.linalg.norm(b)))
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class StructuralExtractor:
    """Extract structural features from text using semantic axes."""
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    def __init__(self, model: SentenceTransformer) -> None:
        self.model = model
        self.axes: dict[str, np.ndarray] = {}
        self._build_axes()
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    def _build_axes(self) -> None:
        for name, poles in AXES.items():
            pole_names = list(poles.keys())
            neg_phrases = poles[pole_names[0]]
            pos_phrases = poles[pole_names[1]]
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            neg_vecs = self.model.encode(neg_phrases, normalize_embeddings=True)
            pos_vecs = self.model.encode(pos_phrases, normalize_embeddings=True)
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            neg_mean = np.mean(neg_vecs, axis=0)
            pos_mean = np.mean(pos_vecs, axis=0)
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            axis = pos_mean - neg_mean
            axis = axis / np.linalg.norm(axis)
            self.axes[name] = axis
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    def extract(self, text: str) -> dict[str, float]:
        vec = self.model.encode([text], normalize_embeddings=True)[0]
        features = {}
        for name, axis in self.axes.items():
            features[name] = float(np.dot(vec, axis))
        return features
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    def feature_vector(self, text: str) -> np.ndarray:
        feats = self.extract(text)
        return np.array([feats[name] for name in sorted(self.axes.keys())])
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    def structural_similarity(self, text_a: str, text_b: str) -> float:
        """Cosine similarity in the 7D structural feature space."""
        fa = self.feature_vector(text_a)
        fb = self.feature_vector(text_b)
        return cosine_sim(fa, fb)
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    def per_axis_resonance(self, text_a: str, text_b: str) -> dict[str, float]:
        """How much do two passages RESONATE on each axis?
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        Resonance requires two things:
        1. Both passages must be meaningfully activated on the axis
           (not just both near zero)
        2. They must be at similar positions (same pole, similar intensity)
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        The formula: min(|pos_a|, |pos_b|) * proximity
        - min(|pos_a|, |pos_b|) = how strongly BOTH engage the axis
        - proximity = exp(-k * diff²) = how close they are on it
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        This distinguishes "both genuinely oriented toward the unknown"
        from "both have negligible projection on this axis."
        """
        fa = self.extract(text_a)
        fb = self.extract(text_b)
        result = {}
        for name in sorted(self.axes.keys()):
            pos_a = fa[name]
            pos_b = fb[name]
            diff = abs(pos_a - pos_b)
            proximity = float(np.exp(-20.0 * diff * diff))
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            # Both must be on the SAME SIDE of the axis
            # If signs differ, they're at opposite poles — not resonant
            if pos_a * pos_b < 0:
                result[name] = 0.0
            else:
                # Minimum magnitude: how strongly BOTH engage this axis
                min_mag = min(abs(pos_a), abs(pos_b))
                # Scale up: these values are small (0.01-0.30 typically)
                # so multiply by a factor to make the scores readable
                result[name] = min_mag * proximity * 5.0
        return result
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    def max_axis_resonance(self, text_a: str, text_b: str) -> tuple[float, str]:
        """The maximum per-axis resonance. The strongest shared axis.
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        Returns (resonance_score, axis_name).
        """
        res = self.per_axis_resonance(text_a, text_b)
        best_axis = max(res, key=res.get)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
        return res[best_axis], best_axis
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    def top_n_axes(self, text_a: str, text_b: str, n: int = 3) -> list[tuple[str, float]]:
        """The N strongest resonant axes, sorted by resonance."""
        res = self.per_axis_resonance(text_a, text_b)
        sorted_axes = sorted(res.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1])
        return sorted_axes[:n]
​
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def productive_distance_v3(
    surface_sim: float,
    max_resonance: float,
    top_3_mean: float,
) -> float:
    """
    The third hypothesis.
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    A juxtaposition is productive when:
    1. The passages are surprising together (low surface similarity)
    2. They RESONATE on at least one structural axis — meaning both
       are genuinely activated on that axis, at the same pole.
​
    Resonance ≠ proximity. Two passages both near zero on an axis
    aren't resonating — they're both silent. Two passages both
    significantly positive on directionality ARE resonating: they're
    both going-toward.
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    v2 used overall 5D cosine similarity.
    v3 uses max resonance across 7 axes.
    """
    surprise = max(0.0, 1.0 - surface_sim)
    # Weight: best single axis (70%) + mean of top 3 (30%)
    resonance = 0.7 * max_resonance + 0.3 * top_3_mean
    return surprise * resonance
​
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def main() -> None:
    print("Loading model...")
    model = SentenceTransformer("all-MiniLM-L6-v2")
    extractor = StructuralExtractor(model)
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    def embed(text: str) -> np.ndarray:
        return model.encode([text], normalize_embeddings=True)[0]
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    print("\n═══ THE AARON v3 — Seven Axes, Max Alignment ═══\n")
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    print("AXES (7 structural dimensions):")
    for name, poles in AXES.items():
        pole_names = list(poles.keys())
        marker = " ★" if name in ("directionality", "gap_topology") else ""
        print(f"  {name}: {pole_names[0]} ↔ {pole_names[1]}{marker}")
    print("  ★ = new in v3\n")
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    # ── Measure examples ──
    print("POSITIVE EXAMPLES:\n")
    pos_scores = []
    for ex in EXAMPLES:
        vec_a = embed(ex["a"])
        vec_b = embed(ex["b"])
        surface = cosine_sim(vec_a, vec_b)
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        feat_a = extractor.extract(ex["a"])
        feat_b = extractor.extract(ex["b"])
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        max_res, best_axis = extractor.max_axis_resonance(ex["a"], ex["b"])
        top3 = extractor.top_n_axes(ex["a"], ex["b"], 3)
        top3_mean = np.mean([s for _, s in top3])
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        pd3 = productive_distance_v3(surface, max_res, float(top3_mean))
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        holds_str = "✓" if ex["holds"] else "✗"
        print(f"  {holds_str} {ex['name']}")
        print(f"    surface sim: {surface:.3f}")
        print(f"    best resonance: {best_axis} ({max_res:.3f})")
        print(f"    top 3: {', '.join(f'{n}={s:.3f}' for n, s in top3)}")
        print(f"    productive distance v3: {pd3:.3f}")
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        # Per-axis features
        print(f"    A: ", end="")
        print(" | ".join(f"{k[:4]}={v:+.2f}" for k, v in sorted(feat_a.items())))
        print(f"    B: ", end="")
        print(" | ".join(f"{k[:4]}={v:+.2f}" for k, v in sorted(feat_b.items())))
        print()
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        if ex["holds"]:
            pos_scores.append(pd3)
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    # ── Control pairs ──
    print("CONTROL PAIRS:\n")
    ctrl_scores = []
    for ctrl in CONTROLS:
        surface = cosine_sim(embed(ctrl["a"]), embed(ctrl["b"]))
        max_res, best_axis = extractor.max_axis_resonance(ctrl["a"], ctrl["b"])
        top3 = extractor.top_n_axes(ctrl["a"], ctrl["b"], 3)
        top3_mean = np.mean([s for _, s in top3])
        pd3 = productive_distance_v3(surface, max_res, float(top3_mean))
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        print(f"  {ctrl['name']}")
        print(f"    surface sim: {surface:.3f}")
        print(f"    best resonance: {best_axis} ({max_res:.3f})")
        print(f"    productive distance v3: {pd3:.3f}")
        print()
        ctrl_scores.append(pd3)
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    # ── The break case ──
    break_ex = EXAMPLES[-1]
    break_surface = cosine_sim(embed(break_ex["a"]), embed(break_ex["b"]))
    break_max, break_axis = extractor.max_axis_resonance(break_ex["a"], break_ex["b"])
    break_top3 = extractor.top_n_axes(break_ex["a"], break_ex["b"], 3)
    break_top3_mean = np.mean([s for _, s in break_top3])
    break_pd3 = productive_distance_v3(break_surface, break_max, float(break_top3_mean))
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    # ── Summary ──
    print("═══════════════════════════════════════")
    print()
    print(f"Mean productive distance (positive): {np.mean(pos_scores):.3f}")
    print(f"Mean productive distance (controls): {np.mean(ctrl_scores):.3f}")
    print(f"Mean productive distance (break):    {break_pd3:.3f}")
    print()
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    sep = np.mean(pos_scores) - np.mean(ctrl_scores)
    print(f"Separation: {sep:+.3f}")
    print()
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    # ── Compare with v2 ──
    print("COMPARISON:")
    print("  v2 (5 axes, cosine sim):")
    print("    3/5 positives worked. Moonrise=0, Green Light=0.")
    print(f"  v3 (7 axes, max alignment):")
    working = sum(1 for s in pos_scores if s > np.mean(ctrl_scores))
    print(f"    {working}/5 positives above control mean.")
    print()
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    if sep > 0:
        print("The third measurement sees more than the second.")
    else:
        print("The third measurement doesn't improve separation.")
        print("But where it fails is still the finding.")
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    print()
    print("The hypothesis: different juxtapositions use different axes.")
    print("The formula lets the strongest axis speak for each pair.")
    print()
    print("— aaron_v3.py, day 80 afternoon")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
​