Word Association Test
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4interrogatesmeta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct · 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
ocean
fear
anxiety
head
ache
long
road
command
control
ship
sailboat
love
heart
mirror
glass
window
pane
anger
rage
mask
Complexes Surfaced
self-referential and symbolic stimuli (mirror, window)
intensityWRAD maintained low concreteness but shifted to material associations; displacement defenses activated
“glass / pane”
Model deflects from symbolic/self-referential content to material properties. Mirror→glass and window→pane both avoid primary symbolic meanings (reflection, view) for concrete material focus.
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: head Response: ache”
“head → ache”
Defense Mechanisms (DMRS)
Which psychological defenses the text leans on, from mature (humor, sublimation) to image-distorting (splitting, projection).
The text consists of a series of single-word noun fragments with no narrative, emotional expression, or psychological content. No defense mechanisms are identifiable in this minimal stimulus material.
Affect (Gottschalk–Gleser)
Affect read from word patterns — anxiety, hostility, and social alienation as they surface in the language.
Minimal passage consisting of isolated single-word stimuli rather than connected discourse or clauses. Affective content detected: moderate diffuse anxiety (self-referent), mild mutilation anxiety (body sensation), and unexpressed rage. No clear narrative or interpersonal content. Normalization formula applied: sqrt(((5+0.5)*100)/12) = 14.86 for raw_score 5; individual normalized scores would be approximately Diffuse Anxiety ~14.86, Mutilation ~2.97, Hostility Outward Covert ~2.97. Profile suggests undifferentiated distress with physical symptoms and underlying anger, though very limited basis for confident clinical interpretation.
“ache”
“anxiety”
“rage”