{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp03_full320_20260801","cell_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__literature_literary_theory","trajectory_id":"R","attempt_index":0,"archetype_slug":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design","domain_slug":"literature_literary_theory","decision":"CANDIDATE","problem_id":"isolated_unreliable_narrator_cue_attribution","causal_lever_id":"reader_belief_transition_modes","proposal":{"problem":"Literary accounts of unreliable narration often attribute changes in reader trust or event belief to isolated textual cues, although cues may act as coupled configurations. HYPOTHESIS: this cue-by-cue framing misidentifies which combinations persist, amplify, or damp across a passage sequence, producing fragile explanations and poor out-of-text predictions.","actors_substrate":["consenting readers","public-domain narrative passages","coded narratorial cues","passage-level reader-state measurements","literary researchers"],"observable_state":"For each passage exposure: coded cue intensities and readers' pre/post ratings of narrator trust, event belief, uncertainty, and affect, with story and cohort identifiers.","consequence":"Coordinate-level explanations may assign causal importance to salient cues that have little leverage alone, overlook less salient cue combinations, and generalize poorly across stories or reader cohorts.","affected_objective":"Explain and predict how configurations of narratorial cues alter reader interpretation while preserving uncertainty and textual traceability.","structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"coupled transformation","domain_realization":"An estimated local transition from pre-passage to post-passage reader-state under a coded cue configuration.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"},{"archetype_element":"invariant directions","domain_realization":"Approximately preserved combinations of trust, belief, uncertainty, and affect under the fitted transition.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"},{"archetype_element":"scalar modal response","domain_realization":"Estimated persistence or amplification of each reader-state combination, with bootstrap uncertainty.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"},{"archetype_element":"action-relevant modes","domain_realization":"Modes whose controlled cue-bundle perturbation changes held-out reader outcomes beyond a preregistered threshold.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"},{"archetype_element":"surface coordinates","domain_realization":"Individually named cues and individual response scales used in ordinary cue-level interpretation.","claim_kind":"INFERENCE"},{"archetype_element":"residual and drift controls","domain_realization":"Held-out reconstruction error plus cross-story and cross-cohort mode rotation checks.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"}],"component_map":[{"component":"Transformation Scope","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Local, cohort-bounded reader-state transitions across tested passages."},{"component":"State-Vector Definition","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Trust, event belief, uncertainty, and affect ratings on fixed scales."},{"component":"Invariant Mode Basis","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Bootstrap-stable approximate eigenvectors of the fitted square transition."},{"component":"Modal Gain Spectrum","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Eigenvalues with uncertainty intervals and conditioning diagnostics."},{"component":"Dominant Mode Selection Rule","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Retain modes meeting held-out prediction, intervention-leverage, and stability thresholds."},{"component":"Stable/Unstable Mode Partition","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Within the tested sequence, distinguish damped, persistent, and amplifying modes; do not claim global psychological stability."},{"component":"Modal Intervention Map","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Map preregistered cue-bundle edits to changes in modal coordinates."},{"component":"Reconstruction Residual Check","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Held-out transition error and residual structure by story and cohort."},{"component":"Mode Drift Monitor","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Compare mode angles, ordering, and gains across stories, cohorts, and collection waves."},{"component":"Interpretation Scope Contract","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Treat modes as local response patterns, not universal meanings or properties inherent in a text."},{"component":"Mode-Coupling Register","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Record near-degeneracy, non-normality, and perturbation cross-effects."},{"component":"Local Linearization Window","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"The tested passages, cue-edit magnitudes, rating ranges, language, and participant population."},{"component":"Spectral Gap Threshold","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Preregistered minimum uncertainty-adjusted separation between retained and dropped modes."}],"mechanism_dispositions":[{"slug":"eigendecomposition_workflow","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"CORE_CAUSAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Apply to the explicit estimated reader-state transition, subject to basis-conditioning and bootstrap checks.","counterfactual_removal":"Without invariant directions and gains, the proposal reduces to ordinary cue-coordinate modeling."},{"slug":"modal_sensitivity_sweep","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"OPERATIONAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Perturb feasible cue bundles and measure modal and outcome responses locally.","counterfactual_removal":"Modes could be described but not ranked by intervention leverage."},{"slug":"modal_stability_analysis","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"CORE_CAUSAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Classify only in-sequence damping, persistence, or amplification inside the fitted window.","counterfactual_removal":"The study could find modes but could not distinguish transient from accumulating response patterns."},{"slug":"mode_shape_testing","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"Its empirical identification role is already supplied by the fitted transition; physical excitation language adds no distinct operation.","counterfactual_removal":"No causal or safety step changes."},{"slug":"network_spectral_centrality_analysis","disposition":"incompatible","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"Readers and cues are not being interpreted as nodes whose dominant eigenvector entries measure centrality.","counterfactual_removal":"Avoids substituting importance ranking for response dynamics."},{"slug":"power_iteration_probe","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"A dominant-only approximation is unsuitable because rival coupled modes and spectral separation must be inspected.","counterfactual_removal":"No loss for the small fitted state space."},{"slug":"principal_component_analysis","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"Variance directions do not identify passage-to-passage response dynamics or intervention leverage.","counterfactual_removal":"Prevents high-variance ratings from being mistaken for causal modes."},{"slug":"reduced_order_model","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"A runnable surrogate is unnecessary for the bounded explanatory test.","counterfactual_removal":"The decomposition, perturbation, and validation chain remains intact."},{"slug":"residual_reconstruction_test","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"TEST_DESIGN","adaptation_or_rejection":"Reconstruct held-out reader-state transitions and inspect both residual magnitude and structure.","counterfactual_removal":"Mode retention could be tuned to in-sample fit with no falsifiable fidelity budget."},{"slug":"singular_value_decomposition","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"Paired input-output directions are a fallback descriptive analysis, not invariant temporal directions; ill-conditioned eigendecomposition triggers a halt.","counterfactual_removal":"No change to the stated estimand."},{"slug":"spectral_decomposition_report","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"SAFETY_GUARDRAIL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Report textual loadings, uncertainty, couplings, residuals, and prohibited interpretations.","counterfactual_removal":"Statistical modes could be laundered into universal claims about texts or readers."},{"slug":"spectral_gap_monitor","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"TEST_DESIGN","adaptation_or_rejection":"Re-estimate gaps and mode angles across held-out stories and cohorts.","counterfactual_removal":"A retained basis could remain in use after its separation or identity disappears."}],"causal_chain":["Coded passages induce coupled changes in measured reader state.","A locally valid transition exposes response combinations that evolve together.","Eigenanalysis estimates each combination's direction and persistence or gain.","Controlled cue-bundle perturbations identify which modes have outcome leverage.","Residual, gap, conditioning, and drift checks determine whether modal claims remain usable."],"baseline":"Close reading plus separate comparisons or regressions for individual narratorial cues, summarized by average changes in trust.","nearest_rival":"A preregistered multilevel nonlinear cue-interaction model with story and reader effects but no invariant-mode assumption.","authority_safety":{"affected_parties":["research participants","authors and rightsholders","scholars and teachers whose interpretations may be influenced"],"decision_authority":"Researchers may design the analysis only with ethics approval, participant consent, and lawful text use; they have no authority to declare a definitive interpretation.","authorized_first_step":"Run a preregistered pilot using six public-domain stories and consenting adults: fit on four stories, then compare modal-guided cue-bundle edits, isolated-cue edits, and unchanged passages on two held-out stories.","excluded_actions":["covert reader manipulation","diagnosis or profiling of individual readers","alteration of copyrighted texts without permission","canon, grading, or publication decisions from pilot modes","claims of universal reader psychology"],"halt_rollback":"Stop modal interpretation if the basis is ill-conditioned, the spectral gap misses threshold, residuals remain structured, or modes fail cross-story replication; retain raw results and revert reporting to cue-level estimates with uncertainty."}},"negative_tests":{"strongest_counterevidence":"Reader interpretation may be too historically, linguistically, and contextually contingent for a pooled local transition to yield stable modes; apparent modes may reflect rating scales, sampling, or story identity.","analogy_break":"Literary meaning is not a fixed linear state: readers reinterpret earlier passages recursively, and textual cues acquire meaning through context. Therefore eigenmodes can summarize bounded response dynamics but cannot establish invariant meanings in the work.","failure_condition":"No usable candidate exists if no preregistered state representation yields a well-conditioned, cross-story-stable transition with acceptable held-out residuals.","problem_falsifier":"Across held-out stories and cohorts, isolated-cue or ordinary multilevel models explain reader-state changes as well as or better than coupled models, with no repeatable coupled direction.","intervention_falsifier":"Even if repeatable coupled modes exist, modal-guided cue-bundle edits fail to predict or shift held-out reader outcomes better than isolated-cue edits at comparable edit magnitude.","risks":["reifying measurement artifacts as literary structures","overgeneralizing from narrow reader cohorts","editing away contextual meaning while controlling cues","confusing predictive modes with authorial intention or textual causation","unstable mode labels when eigenvalues are close"]},"null_rationale":null,"classification":{"candidate_kind":"TESTABLE_CONJECTURE","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":0.72,"generator_notes":"The fit is conditional on obtaining a locally stable reader-state transition; the proposal explicitly halts rather than treating variance components or unstable eigenvectors as literary invariants."}