AI RESEARCH
Phase Transitions in Affective Meaning Divergence: The Hidden Drift Before the Break
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.09043v1 Announce Type: cross One partner says "Fine" meaning resolution; the other hears surrender. The word is shared; the affective uptake is not. We formalize this as affective meaning divergence (AMD), the total-variation distance between interlocutors' anchor-conditioned affect distributions.