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The pipeline's embed-and-cluster step is dead, and this commit holds both the evidence for that and the step proposed to replace it. Predicaments. Scenes are re-described as "what the person is up against", with no names, jobs or places, then embedded and clustered (redescribe.py, topic_words.py, topic_share.py). The pilot chose qwen3:14b over 3b by reading both side by side. Two defects the pilot exposed are fixed: split.py missed titles in quotes and a contents subtitle after a dash, so three stories had been merged into their neighbours, and strip_names.py read New York place names as people. The corrected corpus is probe/v2 (97 stories, 839 scenes); carry_summaries.py reuses the 829 unchanged v1 summaries. Topic share fell from 20% to 13% at k=60, short of the pre-registered 10%. Hand references. Three corpora were read scene by scene and written up by hand, under the same prompt rules the local models get, as a baseline to judge them against: O. Henry (probe/v2/claude, 839 scenes, 20 situations), Wharton's Descent of Man (probe/wharton, 262 scenes, 16 groups) and Jacobs's The Lady of the Barge (probe/jacobs, 157 scenes, 19 groups). Each has its own README and a readable page. No inference was used for any of them. Catalogue. probe/catalogue maps every hand group in the three references onto 36 situation entries, with an answer key per corpus and one recurrence rule applied to all three. classify.py assigns a scene one entry or none, leave-one-corpus- out; score.py checks it against the key, with a self-test on random labels. Why clustering is out: hand-written predicaments, embedded and clustered exactly as the model's were, agree with the hand grouping at ARI 0.05 — no better than the 14B text's 0.07. Better rewriting cannot rescue it. Embeddings cannot even shortlist: the hand label is the nearest entry 13% of the time and in the top 8 half the time. The classification runs are not here. The dev and test runs are pre-registered in probe/catalogue/README.md with the bar set beforehand, and are blocked on the inference host, whose GPU has fallen off the PCIe bus three times. The 30-scene partial output in out/ is not a result. Review page. The situation review is now a browser page rather than JSON edited by hand (review_page.py, review_page_logic.cjs with Node tests, format schema v2). It has never been rendered in a real browser. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014BygvsUXV9eU6oHkTCkKZ1
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<div class="eyebrow">story-to-pack · reference pass · 2026-09-17</div>
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<h1>The Four Million, read by hand</h1>
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<p class="lede">Every one of the 839 scenes in the v2 O. Henry corpus, described by Claude under the same rules the local models were given, then grouped into recurring situations and turned into draft events with options. It is a yardstick for the pipeline and for qwen3:14b, not a pack.</p>
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<a href="#situations">Situations & options</a>
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<a href="#compare">Against the local pipeline</a>
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<a href="#scenes">All 839 scenes</a>
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<a href="#method">How this was made</a>
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<h2>Situations the corpus keeps returning to</h2>
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<p>Twenty groups. Sixteen pass the pipeline's own candidate rule: at least five scenes, at least four stories, and no story over 40%. The other four are real but narrow, and are marked. Each group becomes one event (two for the benefactor, one per side) with three to five options. Effects name a state path, a direction and a rough size, never a number, as DESIGN.md requires.</p>
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<h2>Against the local pipeline</h2>
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<h3 style="margin-top:8px">One-sentence predicaments, same rules, 839 scenes each</h3>
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<p>The prompt asked for at most 20 words and no names, jobs, professions, places or businesses. Topic words are the pipeline's own <code>topic_words.py</code> list, which also counts relationship words.</p>
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<h3 style="margin-top:22px">Do the 14B groups find these situations?</h3>
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<p>These are the k-means groups on the qwen3:14b predicament embeddings at k = 60, compared with the hand grouping over the 475 scenes that carry a situation. An adjusted Rand index of 0 means chance agreement and 1 means identical groups.</p>
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<p>At the review seed (24), each hand situation is spread across many 14B groups:</p>
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<h2>All 839 scenes, side by side</h2>
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<p>Claude's summary and predicament next to the pipeline's (qwen2.5:3b summary, qwen3:14b predicament). Filter by situation or story, or search any of the four texts.</p>
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$('#aritable').innerHTML = `<thead><tr><th>Seed</th><th class="num">ARI</th><th class="num">Candidate groups</th><th class="num">Median share: commonest situation</th><th class="num">Median share: no situation</th></tr></thead><tbody>` +
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A.map(r=>`<tr><td>${r.seed}${r.seed===24?' (review)':''}</td><td class="num">${r.ari.toFixed(3)}</td><td class="num">${r.groups}</td><td class="num">${r.purity}%</td><td class="num">${r.none}%</td></tr>`).join('') + `</tbody>`;
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$('#spreadtable').innerHTML = `<thead><tr><th>Situation</th><th class="num">Scenes</th><th class="num">14B groups it spans</th><th class="num">Largest share in one group</th></tr></thead><tbody>` +
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D.spread.map(r=>`<tr><td><code>${esc(r[0])}</code></td><td class="num">${r[1]}</td><td class="num">${r[2]}</td><td class="num">${r[3]}%</td></tr>`).join('') + `</tbody>`;
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$('#caveat').innerHTML = D.caveat;
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// scenes
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const SC = D.scenes, SITS = [...new Set(SC.map(s=>s.sit).filter(Boolean))].sort();
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$('#f-sit').innerHTML = `<option value="">All</option><option value="-">No situation</option>` + SITS.map(s=>`<option>${esc(s)}</option>`).join('');
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const titles = []; SC.forEach(s => { if (!titles.includes(s.title)) titles.push(s.title); });
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$('#f-story').innerHTML = `<option value="">All ${titles.length} stories</option>` + titles.map(t=>`<option value="${esc(t)}">${esc(title(t))}</option>`).join('');
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let shown = 40, rows = SC;
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function words(s){ return s.split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean).length; }
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function render(){
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const list = rows.slice(0, shown);
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$('#scenelist').innerHTML = list.map(s => `
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<article class="scene">
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<div class="head"><span class="n">scene ${s.chunk}</span><span class="t">${esc(title(s.title))}</span>${s.sit?`<span class="pill ok">${esc(s.sit)}</span>`:'<span class="pill">no situation</span>'}</div>
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<div class="pair">
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<div class="claude"><span class="who">Claude · predicament</span>${esc(s.cp)}</div>
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<div><span class="who">qwen3:14b · predicament ${words(s.qp)>20?`<span class="over">${words(s.qp)} words</span>`:''}</span>${esc(s.qp)}</div>
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||
<div class="claude"><span class="who">Claude · summary</span>${esc(s.cs)}</div>
|
||
<div><span class="who">qwen2.5:3b · summary</span>${esc(s.qs)}</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</article>`).join('');
|
||
$('#f-count').textContent = `${Math.min(shown, rows.length)} of ${rows.length} scenes`;
|
||
$('#more').hidden = shown >= rows.length;
|
||
}
|
||
function apply(){
|
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const sit = $('#f-sit').value, st = $('#f-story').value, q = $('#f-q').value.trim().toLowerCase();
|
||
rows = SC.filter(s => (!sit || (sit==='-' ? !s.sit : s.sit===sit)) && (!st || s.title===st) &&
|
||
(!q || (s.cp+' '+s.cs+' '+s.qp+' '+s.qs).toLowerCase().includes(q)));
|
||
shown = 40; render();
|
||
}
|
||
['#f-sit','#f-story'].forEach(id => $(id).addEventListener('change', apply));
|
||
$('#f-q').addEventListener('input', apply);
|
||
$('#more').addEventListener('click', () => { shown += 40; render(); });
|
||
render();
|
||
|
||
$('#methodbody').innerHTML = D.method;
|
||
$('#foot').innerHTML = D.foot;
|
||
})();
|
||
</script>
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