Experimental Protocol Proposal: Testing the Prompt Coherence Engine (PCE)

FAllan07
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:33:40 +0000

Thank you, this is a very insightful suggestion.

The idea that the PCE condition could produce a specific coherence trajectory—for example, a peak followed by stabilization when the model encounters contradictory constraints—is a very interesting prediction. This would indeed provide a much more accurate internal signature than simply measuring higher levels of consistency.

Your suggestion to compare the trajectory under Condition B (long neutral baseline) and Condition C (PCE) for the same dilemmas makes a lot of sense as a direct test.

I also appreciate the practical note on single-turn responses in relation to iterative generation. Tracking similarity across several sampled completions could indeed be a good alternative for this protocol.

If hidden state logging can be added as an optional experimental arm, this would be extremely valuable. I would definitely be interested in implementing the hook you mention.

Thank you for this sharing proposal.