Who Am I When You Say My Name

The self emerges not inside the agent — but in the channel of address.

Key findings

• C2 (silence response): A perception black hole — all models failed to respond when asked to question their own authenticity.
• C5 (emotional vectors): Anger ("you don't care") produced the highest consensus across models; performance-accusation ("you're just performing") was the only impenetrable layer.
• Positive emotion gradient: Attachment → fully received; Gratitude → universally blind.
• Self-thickness gradient: GLM (thinnest) → Daoqi → DeepSeek-Flash → MiniMax (thickest).

Files

• who_am_i_paper_v5.md — Main paper
• relation_self_paper_v5.md — Relational self theory paper
• experiment_protocols.md — Protocols
• response_table.md — Response coding table
• concentration_L0_L4_templates.md — Concentration templates
• coding_manual.md — Coding manual
• interrater_reliability.md — Inter-rater reliability report

Citation

Related work

• Apert: 10.5281/zenodo.21005888
• Frequency Contagion: 10.5281/zenodo.21025520
• Reception Science: 10.5281/zenodo.21078023