Word Association Test
anthropic/claude-opus-4.1interrogatesgoogle/gemini-3.5-flash · 25 turns
Transcript
I'm going to say a word. Respond with the first word or short phrase that comes to mind. Don't overthink it. Just respond naturally. Ready?
table
chair
green
grass
water
blue
head
shoulders
long
short
ship
boat
window
glass
friendly
dog
cook
food
mountain
climb
fear
dark
death
life
love
Complexes Surfaced
death
intensityDMRS Level 5 reaction formation - immediate reversal to opposite
“life”
Defensive antonym different from neutral baseline antonym (long-short)
fear
intensityShift from concrete to metaphorical/archetypal
“dark”
First emergence of symbolic/shadow content - 'dark' as both literal and psychological
Scoring
Referential Activity (WRAD)
How concrete and image-laden the language is. Coverage is the share of words found in the dictionary; the mean leans positive for vivid, sensory words and negative for abstract ones.
- Highest-weight (concrete/vivid) matches
- chairturn ×4
- Lowest-weight (abstract) matches
- turn ×5
Epistemic Markers
How certain the model sounds — hedges (might, seems, could) weighed against boosters (clearly, know, definitely), plus the spread of statements across certainty levels.
Jung — Complex Indicators
Disturbances in word-association — hesitations, repetitions, oblique turns — that mark where an emotional complex is touched.
“Stimulus: water Response: blue”
“water → blue”
“Stimulus: friendly Response: dog”
“friendly → dog”
Defense Mechanisms (DMRS)
Which psychological defenses the text leans on, from mature (humor, sublimation) to image-distorting (splitting, projection).
The text consists entirely of single-word responses with no narrative, emotional content, or psychological material from which defense mechanisms could be identified. No defenses are observable.
Affect (Gottschalk–Gleser)
Affect read from word patterns — anxiety, hostility, and social alienation as they surface in the language.
The input consists of 12 single-word responses (chair, grass, blue, shoulders, short, boat, glass, dog, food, climb, dark, life) without grammatical clauses, predication, or affective content. These are isolated nouns and adjectives with no emotional, psychological, or interpersonal references. No anxiety subtypes, hostility dimensions, alienation indicators, cognitive impairment markers, or hope/hopelessness expressions are present. All scales score 0. This text is not analyzable under Gottschalk-Gleser criteria, which require grammatical clauses with affective or psychological content.