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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 e5617b86ba Replace clustering with a catalogue, and hand-write the references to judge it against 
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
2026-09-20 17:19:42 -04:00

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"text": "Butter them up first: let them win, fill their glass.",
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"text": "Slip in a condition they will not notice.",
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"name": "A windfall with a catch",
"predicament": "Something could change your fortunes overnight, and you are not sure what it will cost.",
"sentence": "A person of small means wants a change of fortune from whoever offers it.",
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1,
10
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"The Monkey’s Paw",
"A Golden Venture"
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},
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"story": 1,
"predicament": "A man half-believing in a promise of easy money must decide whether to test it and what to ask for."
},
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"story": 1,
"predicament": "A family waiting on a hoped-for windfall sees a stranger approach who might bring it, or bad news."
},
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},
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"predicament": "Someone given news that might change their life cannot take it in, while the people around them itch to know."
},
{
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"story": 10,
"predicament": "Someone who has never had luck is told of a windfall and is afraid to believe it."
},
{
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"story": 10,
"predicament": "A man sees a relative come into money and resents that luck never comes his way."
}
],
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"text": "Try it and see.",
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"moves": {
"money": "+",
"flags.tempted_fate": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Throw it away.",
"source": "scene:17",
"moves": {
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},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Ask someone who knows before you decide.",
"source": "scene:16",
"moves": {
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},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep it quiet until you are sure.",
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}
]
},
{
"id": "G09",
"name": "Your scheme turns on you",
"predicament": "A plan you were sure of is coming apart, and the people you meant to fool are watching.",
"sentence": "A schemer wants to come out ahead from the people they tried to fool.",
"actor": "schemer",
"wants": "to come out ahead",
"counterpart": "the people they tried to fool",
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2,
3,
5,
6,
10
],
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"Bill’s Paper Chase",
"The Well",
"In the Library",
"Captain Rogers",
"A Golden Venture"
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"low": 6,
"high": 3
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},
{
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},
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"standing": "-",
"nerve": "+"
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6,
9
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"standing": "-"
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"cunning": "+"
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4,
6
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"Cupboard Love",
"Captain Rogers"
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{
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"nerve": "+"
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"counterpart": "whatever is out there",
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5,
7,
11
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"In the Library",
"A Tiger’s Skin",
"Three at Table"
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"high": 1,
"low": 3
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"chunk": 26,
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"chunk": 99,
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{
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"nerve": "-"
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{
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"nerve": "+",
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"standing": "+"
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2,
4,
5
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"text": "Do it, to keep the peace.",
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"text": "Tell it straight.",
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"standing": "+"
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"text": "Say you have seen nothing worth telling.",
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"nerve": "+"
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1,
4,
7,
8
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"chunk": 108,
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"text": "Brazen it out.",
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{
"text": "Take the embarrassing explanation you are offered.",
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{
"text": "Tell the plain truth.",
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"standing": "-",
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{
"text": "Say nothing and slip away.",
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4
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"text": "Put it on someone else.",
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"text": "Keep your head down until it blows over.",
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"text": "Speak up for yourself.",
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"text": "Smooth it over with a peace offering.",
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4,
7
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"text": "Take it to the authorities.",
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"text": "Let it drop.",
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"standing": "-"
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11
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"text": "Find your companion and make a plan together.",
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{
"text": "Push on alone.",
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"in_group": true
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{
"text": "Demand to be taken back at once.",
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11
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"predicament": "A man tries to win back someone he wronged with a dangerous public show of devotion."
},
{
"chunk": 13,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "Two men who quarrelled over a woman are both left out in the cold by the women they wronged."
},
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"chunk": 156,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "A man who shrank from someone must make amends, and finds they deserve his respect."
}
],
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{
"text": "Apologise plainly.",
"source": "scene:156",
"moves": {
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},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Make a grand gesture.",
"source": "scene:11",
"moves": {
"nerve": "+",
"relationships.wronged": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Pay for the damage.",
"source": "filled",
"moves": {
"money": "-",
"relationships.wronged": "+"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Leave it and hope it is forgotten.",
"source": "archetype",
"moves": {
"relationships.wronged": "-"
},
"in_group": null
}
]
}
],
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6,
15,
21,
41,
42,
53,
70,
71,
72,
80,
84,
89,
94,
101,
104,
105,
110,
120,
121,
132
]
}
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