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concept:causal-informational-coupling

Causal informational coupling

Operational definition of introspection: self-report covaries monotonically with probe-defined direction AND causally shifting activations shifts the report in a semantically coherent way

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Thinkers (1)

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  • Iulia-Maria Comsa
    introduces
    Argued genuine introspection requires causal connection between internal state and report; provided theoretical framing adopted by this paper

Frameworks (1)

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  • Quantitative Introspection Framework
    implements
    The paper's central contribution: treating LLM numeric self-report as a quantitative signal validated against probe-defined internal states with causal confirmation via steering

Concepts (2)

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  • Introspective fidelity
    implements
    Isotonic R² measuring fraction of variance in self-report explained by probe score under monotonicity assumption; the paper's primary fidelity metric
  • Introspective strength
    implements
    Spearman ρ measuring rank-order agreement between logit-based self-report and probe score; the paper's primary monotonic association metric

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