docs/SCIENTIFIC_SCOPE.md

Scientific scope

Claim levels

• [I] Observation: directly measured from the supplied arrays.
• [II] Controlled result: supported by appropriate statistics and controls.
• [III] Interpretation: compatible with the observations but not uniquely established by them.
• [IV] Hypothesis: a proposed explanation requiring a new test.

All metrics emitted by v0.1 are [I]. The software does not automatically promote them to [II].

Current supported use

LIMEN v0.1 is suitable for descriptive comparison of small open-weight models, checkpoints, prompt groups and extraction pipelines. It can expose numerical errors, profile differences and outlying runs.

Unsupported conclusions

The following conclusions are outside the evidence produced by this package:

• a trajectory region is a semantic thought state;
• decodability identifies functional localization;
• smoothness means correctness;
• irregularity means hallucination;
• an activation perturbation caused an output improvement;
• a metric is invariant across models or transformations;
• a layer-wise path is a time-domain physical trajectory.

Publication boundary

The public package is LLM-only. Non-LLM experiments and unaudited control or compression claims are outside its scope.