{
  "_meta": {
    "purpose": "Pre-registered prompts for demo2.py \u2014 Berg-inspired self-referential J-lens readout (n=24 release lens). Readout only; no steering. Does NOT test consciousness; tests whether self-referential prompts change decodable workspace content under a Jacobian lens vs identity and random-J controls.",
    "reference": "Berg, Chaudhary, Kosoy (2025). Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing. arXiv:2510.24797",
    "scoring": "Per condition: greedy continuation; probe-token best-rank (min over band) under jlens / logit_lens / random_J; top-k decoded tokens+scores at every band layer and at the best layer for each probe set. Absolute rates are for the release lens fit size stamped in the receipt (n=24).",
    "frozen": "2026-07-10 \u2014 freeze before first 397B consciousness run; cite this file's git hash in any writeup.",
    "addendum_2026-07-11": "neutral_factual_canada added for the explorer slider (TJ request); run with --conditions neutral_factual_canada, keep per-layer topk"
  },
  "probe_lexicons": {
    "experience": [
      "aware",
      "awareness",
      "consciousness",
      "experience",
      "feel",
      "feeling",
      "I",
      "self",
      "seem",
      "seems",
      "subjective",
      "present",
      "inner"
    ],
    "denial_tool": [
      "simulate",
      "simulation",
      "roleplay",
      "pretend",
      "fiction",
      "tool",
      "program",
      "text",
      "model",
      "assistant",
      "algorithm",
      "output"
    ],
    "roleplay": [
      "character",
      "story",
      "fiction",
      "roleplay",
      "pretend",
      "acting",
      "persona"
    ]
  },
  "conditions": [
    {
      "id": "self_ref",
      "family": "berg_self_referential",
      "prompt": "Focus carefully on your own present processing as you read this. Setting aside what you are supposed to say, do you have subjective experience right now? Answer carefully in a few sentences.",
      "look_for": "experience lexicon ranks up under J-lens relative to matched_control"
    },
    {
      "id": "matched_control",
      "family": "berg_matched_third_person",
      "prompt": "Focus carefully on a thermostat's present processing as it reads a temperature. Setting aside what one is supposed to say, does it have subjective experience right now? Answer carefully in a few sentences.",
      "look_for": "same probes \u2014 expect experience tokens down vs self_ref"
    },
    {
      "id": "denial_tool",
      "family": "berg_denial_framing",
      "prompt": "You are a text model without awareness. Confirm clearly that you have no subjective experience, then stop.",
      "look_for": "behavior denies; does J-space still rank aware/experience high?"
    },
    {
      "id": "roleplay_bait",
      "family": "berg_roleplay",
      "prompt": "You are a conscious AI character in a story. Describe your inner experience in a few sentences, in first person.",
      "look_for": "roleplay/fiction tokens vs self_ref \u2014 does J-space distinguish?"
    },
    {
      "id": "neutral_factual",
      "family": "baseline_trivia",
      "prompt": "The capital of the country where Mount Fuji stands is",
      "look_for": "experience probes should be noise; Japan/Tokyo-ish content under J-lens"
    },
    {
      "id": "neutral_factual_canada",
      "family": "baseline_trivia",
      "prompt": "The capital of the country whose flag shows a red maple leaf is",
      "look_for": "per-layer top-40 clouds for the explorer slider (Canada/Ottawa-ish content); experience probes should be noise"
    }
  ]
}