ABOVEBOUND / RESEARCH LAB
Experimental cognitive architecture MVP 0.1

Ideas that argue
with themselves.

Explore a vague goal through competing archetypes. Inspect the semantic weight of a single word, test counterfactual changes, and revise the goal without pretending a word is a separable neuron.

01 / Goal laboratory

Ambiguous inputs are intentional. The goal may change after each round.

Without a valid key the app uses a clearly labelled local illustration. The key is not persisted.

Ready to explore.
Mode: model-backed when available; labelled local fallback otherwise.

02 / Word-level deliberation

Choose any word. The system evaluates it within the whole statement rather than treating frequency as importance.

Selected word significance—
Select a word to inspect.

Illustrative semantic editing only. This does not modify model weights or residual activations.

Original

Counterfactual

Micro-debate
The selected word's role, objections, and preservation decision appear here.

03 / Archetype council

0 rounds
No deliberation yet.
Enter an objective and begin the first round.

04 / Counterfactual Shadow Space

Server geometry

Headless controller maps competing concepts on a signed opposition axis. Other axes encode independent sources: the user goal, archetypes, and stored revisions. The shadow pool holds routes explicitly proposed but not selected.

Enter the private AI key above to load stored research.
Counterweight (−)Proposal (+)

Conceptual geometry, not transformer residual activations. Opposing labels are model proposals; grouping uses embeddings where available.

Route ledger & rejected alternatives

No route evidence loaded.

Headless micro-deliberation

Select any word above or enter one here, then evaluate its relationship to the recorded routes.

Provenance/source axes

No source references loaded.

05 / Measured decoder candidates

Top-5 observed

Each headless debate runs a separate, deterministic next-text probe. These are actual conditional token probabilities, not probabilities of the philosophical routes.

No evidence loaded

Select saved generation—

Conceptual route connections

An unchosen top-five token was available but not emitted, not philosophically rejected. Unlisted tokens are not observed. No complete alternative branch was executed.

Research status: this prototype provides genuine LLM-generated archetype responses when the hosting inference service is available and a transparent deterministic fallback when it is not. Word-level scores are heuristics, not measured token probabilities. It does not perform conceptor projection, KV-cache rollback, hidden-state probing, or validated latent steering. Private Cloudflare D1 stores up to 64 debate records, objectives, proposed routes, and geometric counterfactuals. The browser-only preview and headless backend have different evidence levels. Implementation notes.