Show HN: Experiments Mapping the "Primitive Layer" in Language Models
https://github.com/dchisholm125/graph-oriented-generation
I spent months running experiments on what language models do when they encounter inputs outside their training distribution — random phonemes, invented morphemes, Wierzbicka's semantic primitives.The finding that surprised me: Language model behavior follows a reproducible taxonomy (Synthesis, Collapse, Overflow, Metacognition, Linguistic Drift). It's not random noise — it's classifiable.The...