{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp03_full320_20260801","cell_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__linguistics_semiotics","trajectory_id":"R","attempt_index":0,"archetype_slug":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design","domain_slug":"linguistics_semiotics","decision":"CANDIDATE","problem_id":"multilingual_emergency_message_handoff_drift","causal_lever_id":"targeting_recurrent_meaning_drift_modes","proposal":{"problem":"Repeated translation, paraphrase, and editorial handoffs of multilingual emergency instructions can produce systematic divergence from the source meaning through coupled changes in obligation, certainty, agency, reference, and timing. Word-level similarity and isolated error checks can miss the combinations that persist or amplify across handoffs. Whether stable coupled drift modes exist is a HYPOTHESIS.","actors_substrate":["emergency-message authors and approving agencies","translators and editors","multilingual recipients","language-community reviewers","paired source, intermediate, and recipient-interpreted messages"],"observable_state":"For each message version, an adjudicated vector records retained propositions, obligation strength, epistemic certainty, named actor, temporal and spatial reference, negation, register, and recipient action interpretation; paired versions expose changes per handoff.","consequence":"A message may remain superficially similar while recipients infer the wrong actor, urgency, confidence, location, or required action, potentially producing delayed or incorrect protective behavior.","affected_objective":"Preserve actionable meaning and calibrated urgency across multilingual emergency-message handoffs while detecting consequential drift before publication.","structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"Transformation acting on coupled variables","domain_realization":"A translation or editorial handoff maps one adjudicated meaning-feature vector to the next; treating it as locally repeatable within one message genre is a HYPOTHESIS.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"},{"archetype_element":"Invariant or approximately invariant modes","domain_realization":"Coupled feature directions that recur across handoffs, such as simultaneous weakening of obligation and deletion of the responsible actor.","claim_kind":"INFERENCE"},{"archetype_element":"Scalar modal response","domain_realization":"Estimated persistence or amplification of each coupled drift direction per handoff.","claim_kind":"INFERENCE"},{"archetype_element":"Action-relevant mode selection","domain_realization":"Modes are retained by out-of-sample reconstruction plus measured effects on recipient action interpretation, not frequency or variance alone.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"},{"archetype_element":"Stable/unstable partition","domain_realization":"Modes are classified as decaying, persistent, or growing across successive simulated handoffs inside the declared genre-language window.","claim_kind":"INFERENCE"},{"archetype_element":"Intervention in modal coordinates","domain_realization":"Review prompts and templates jointly protect the feature combinations loading on consequential modes rather than flagging isolated words.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"},{"archetype_element":"Residual and drift governance","domain_realization":"Unexplained interpretation errors, rotating modes, or a collapsing spectral gap suspend reliance on the modal review scheme.","claim_kind":"INFERENCE"}],"component_map":[{"component":"Transformation Scope","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"One specified emergency-message genre, language pair, channel, and translation/editorial handoff type."},{"component":"State-Vector Definition","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Adjudicated semantic-pragmatic features and recipient action interpretations for each version."},{"component":"Invariant Mode Basis","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Approximately recurrent coupled directions of feature change across handoffs."},{"component":"Modal Gain Spectrum","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Estimated gain or persistence attached to every fitted mode."},{"component":"Dominant Mode Selection Rule","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Retain modes exceeding preregistered comprehension-effect and validation-residual thresholds."},{"component":"Stable/Unstable Mode Partition","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Decay, persistence, or growth under repeated simulated handoffs."},{"component":"Modal Intervention Map","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Map each review prompt or template constraint to the modes it is expected to suppress."},{"component":"Reconstruction Residual Check","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Reconstruct held-out feature changes and inspect both error magnitude and structured omissions."},{"component":"Mode Drift Monitor","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Track mode rotation, reordering, gain changes, and residual growth across new batches."},{"component":"Interpretation Scope Contract","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Forbid generalization beyond the tested genres, communities, language pairs, channels, and handoff counts."},{"component":"Mode-Coupling Register","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Record near-degenerate, non-orthogonal, or perturbation-linked modes that cannot be interpreted independently."},{"component":"Local Linearization Window","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"The bounded range of message length, genre, translator workflow, and handoff count represented in the pilot."},{"component":"Spectral Gap Threshold","status":"direct","domain_realization":"A preregistered minimum separation between retained and excluded modes required for simplified review."}],"mechanism_dispositions":[{"slug":"eigendecomposition_workflow","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"CORE_CAUSAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Fit an explicit square local transition on adjudicated feature changes and obtain the full eigenbasis and gains; report conditioning and complex modes.","counterfactual_removal":"Without repeated-operation modes, the proposal reduces to correlated error description and cannot identify persistent or growing drift directions."},{"slug":"modal_sensitivity_sweep","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"CORE_CAUSAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Perturb simulated modal coordinates and candidate review constraints, then measure recipient-interpretation response and cross-effects.","counterfactual_removal":"Mode magnitude could be mistaken for practical consequence, leaving no defensible intervention ranking."},{"slug":"modal_stability_analysis","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"CORE_CAUSAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Classify fitted modes under repeated simulated handoffs, only within the declared local window.","counterfactual_removal":"Persistent and amplifying drift could not be distinguished from one-step noise."},{"slug":"mode_shape_testing","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"TEST_DESIGN","adaptation_or_rejection":"Adapt excitation to low-risk, consented wording perturbations in simulated messages and observe recipient interpretations; do not induce real emergency ambiguity.","counterfactual_removal":"The mathematical mode shapes would lack an independent behavioral validation route."},{"slug":"network_spectral_centrality_analysis","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"The target is transformation of meaning features, not ranking nodes in a communication network.","counterfactual_removal":"No causal or operational step changes."},{"slug":"power_iteration_probe","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"The pilot state is small enough for a full spectrum, and a dominant-only estimate would hide consequential secondary or near-degenerate modes.","counterfactual_removal":"No loss; full decomposition supplies the required information."},{"slug":"principal_component_analysis","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"High variance in message features does not establish repeated-handoff dynamics or recipient consequence.","counterfactual_removal":"No loss; covariance modes are not the causal target."},{"slug":"reduced_order_model","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"A runnable surrogate is premature before modal stability and behavioral validity are established.","counterfactual_removal":"The bounded pilot can test the fitted transition directly."},{"slug":"residual_reconstruction_test","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"TEST_DESIGN","adaptation_or_rejection":"Reconstruct held-out handoff changes from retained modes and test magnitude and semantic structure of residuals.","counterfactual_removal":"There would be no stopping rule for mode selection or safeguard against discarding rare consequential changes."},{"slug":"singular_value_decomposition","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"TEST_DESIGN","adaptation_or_rejection":"Use SVD as a robustness analysis for non-normality, ill-conditioning, and paired input-output amplification rather than calling singular vectors invariant dynamics.","counterfactual_removal":"Fragile eigenvector interpretations could survive without a non-normal amplification check."},{"slug":"spectral_decomposition_report","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"SAFETY_GUARDRAIL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Document mode meanings, prohibited causal readings, couplings, residuals, and tested scope for reviewers.","counterfactual_removal":"Tentative statistical modes could be operationalized as universal linguistic facts."},{"slug":"spectral_gap_monitor","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"OPERATIONAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Across evaluation batches, track retained/excluded separation, subspace rotation, gain changes, and residuals; compare subspaces rather than unstable labels near crossings.","counterfactual_removal":"A once-valid reduced review scheme could continue after its simplifying separation disappears."}],"causal_chain":["Repeated handoffs jointly alter several meaning-bearing features.","If recurrent local dynamics exist, some coupled alterations persist or grow more reliably than isolated coordinate errors.","A fitted and behaviorally validated decomposition makes those directions and their gains observable.","Sensitivity testing identifies which modes change recipient action interpretation and which review constraints affect them.","Reviewing the implicated feature combinations should suppress consequential drift while residual checks retain visibility into unmodeled errors.","Held-out comprehension outcomes determine whether the modal intervention improves meaning preservation."],"baseline":"Ordinary review compares source and final text using translator judgment, back-translation, terminology lists, and isolated discrepancy checks.","nearest_rival":"A supervised message-level risk model using lexical, embedding, and annotated semantic features directly, without invariant modes or repeated-handoff dynamics.","authority_safety":{"affected_parties":["multilingual emergency-message recipients","translators and editors","emergency agencies","language communities represented in the test"],"decision_authority":"The emergency-communications owner controls any workflow change; language-community reviewers approve interpretations, and an appropriate research-ethics authority governs studies involving recipients.","authorized_first_step":"Run a preregistered retrospective pilot on de-identified or synthetic message chains from one genre and language pair: fit on one subset, validate reconstruction and comprehension on held-out chains, and compare baseline, nearest rival, and modal-assisted review. No real message is changed.","excluded_actions":["automatic rewriting or publication of live emergency messages","withholding or delaying warnings to create experimental controls","treating fitted modes as universal properties of a language or community","collecting identifiable recipient data without authorization","deploying when residual, drift, conditioning, or spectral-gap gates fail"],"halt_rollback":"Stop if comprehension worsens for any prespecified language group, consequential residuals exceed tolerance, modes fail replication, conditioning is unacceptable, or the gap/drift threshold fails; discard modal recommendations and revert to the existing human review workflow."}},"negative_tests":{"strongest_counterevidence":"Held-out recipient interpretations are predicted no better by modal features than by the ordinary baseline or nearest rival, while fitted directions rotate materially across resamples, language communities, or message batches.","analogy_break":"Language handoffs are strategic, contextual, and nonlinear rather than fixed physical operators; translators adapt to discourse and community convention, so a locally fitted linear mode may be a dataset artifact rather than a persistent direction.","failure_condition":"The approach fails if modes are unstable, poorly conditioned, insensitive to recipient outcomes, or dependent on scope so narrow that review prompts cannot transfer even within the declared use window.","problem_falsifier":"Across representative paired handoffs, consequential meaning changes are neither repeatable nor coupled, and isolated discrepancies or ordinary review fully explain recipient interpretation errors.","intervention_falsifier":"Repeatable coupled drift exists, but modal-assisted review does not reduce held-out action-interpretation error versus both the baseline and direct supervised rival, or introduces unequal degradation for a language group.","risks":["Reifying annotation choices as linguistic structure","Mistaking descriptive modes for causal mechanisms","Erasing dialect or community-specific interpretations","False reassurance from low aggregate residuals","Mode instability under small samples or near-degenerate gains","Delaying urgent communication through excessive review"]},"null_rationale":null,"classification":{"candidate_kind":"MECHANISM_ADAPTATION","prior_art_status":"UNSEARCHED","evidence_maturity":"HYPOTHESIS"},"revision_change_log":{"revision_kind":"ORIGINAL","prior_problem_id":null,"prior_causal_lever_id":null,"problem_changed":false,"causal_lever_changed":false,"conceptual_changes":[],"operational_changes":[],"repairs_addressed":[]},"confidence":0.78,"generator_notes":"Closed-book structural fit. Empirical existence, stability, and benefit of linguistic drift modes remain untested hypotheses."}