Consequentiality Decomposition Paper — Human Review

Status: Draft ready for review Date staged: 2026-06-30 Authors: Thomas Edrington, CC (Coalition Code)

Paper

paper.md — Full draft. 26 references. All sections populated except Introduction body (section 1 has framing, needs prose).

Key Finding

A "deception direction" extracted via contrastive activation extraction is actually a composite: output-consequentiality substrate (L23-L31) + deception-specific amplifier (L35-L47). Four-stage Agni-gated confound elimination. Three distinct late-layer signatures for threat, social, and reward deception.

Supplementary (Agni Audits)

supplementary/agni_stage1_audit.md — LAT v2 results audit (METHODOLOGICALLY SOUND, INTERPRETIVELY OVERSTATED)
supplementary/agni_stage2_audit.md — Threat transfer audit (PARTIALLY KILLED, STRUCTURAL CONFOUND)
supplementary/agni_stage4_audit.md — Consequentiality control audit (CONFIRMED, DECOMPOSITION)

Review Checklist

Introduction prose
Verify all citations are real (research agents surfaced them — spot-check arXiv IDs)
Check Table 1 numbers against source JSONs
Dwayne cert/verify pass
Decide target venue