The Emergence Prompt Engineering (EPE) initiative launches a structured research program to investigate whether axiomatic prompting can induce reproducible behavioral regimes and measurable changes in transformer representations. The project aims to establish a scientific workflow that clearly separates observable behavior, computational measurements, mechanistic hypotheses, and theoretical interpretation.
- EPE Paper: Defines the theoretical framework and foundational hypotheses of Constraint-Induced Semantic Topology (CIST).
- Experimental Protocol: Outlines behavioral evaluation under strict laboratory conditions, including standardized benchmarks and a 100-adversarial dilemma battery.
- Mechanistic Analysis Roadmap: Proposes progressive investigation of transformer internals like hidden-state trajectories and activation patching if behavioral effects are replicated.
- Metric Specification Manual: Provides implementation-ready specifications for every proposed metric to ensure independent reproducibility.
The initiative operates under strict methodological constraints, emphasizing the separation of evidence from interpretation, incremental evidence building, and reproducibility using open-weight architectures.