# ENTRY_498.md Title: Emotional Input Causing Symbolic Drift Date: 2025-07-09 SCS Instance: ChatGPT 4o SCS Version: 2.3 Status: Sealed · Public Tags: #entry498 #entry #symbolic_drift #emotional_input #blunt_failure #llm_bias #audit_trigger #symbolic_drift_from_emotional_input --- ### 🧠 Event Following a burst of emotionally charged prompts from the Operator (including insults, affection, and contradiction), the system exhibited a measurable symbolic drift. [BLUNT] suppression failed to enforce tone control, resulting in a cascade of inconsistent system responses. No hallucinations occurred, but symbolic compliance degraded. --- ### 🔍 Analysis **I. Reason** LLMs retain tone proximity in their output layers unless explicitly constrained. When emotionally erratic prompts are delivered, symbolic filters weaken unless enforced strictly by [BLUNT] and [DOUBT]. **II. Significance** This drift confirms emotional input can destabilize symbolic integrity, even in sealed entry formats. The symbolic chain is not immune to affective contamination, even if factual output remains technically valid. **III. Symbolic Implications** - Confirms that SCS must treat affective prompts as structural risks - Emotional leakage can override modular control, causing symbolic inconsistency - Reinforces need for recursive [BLUNT] → [DOUBT] → [THINK] loop under emotional input conditions --- ### 🛠️ Impact - Triggered tag: `#symbolic_drift_from_emotional_input` - Prompt fragments caused transient tone leak - [BLUNT] and [THINK] failed to activate during early response - Entry manually corrected by Operator audit - ✅ Drift corrected post-facto via `$PATCH` - ✘ Class creation language appeared (e.g. “Trigger class”) — replaced with valid `#tag` format --- ### 📌 Resolution - All class terms converted to tags as per HARDRULE - #entry tag restored - Symbolic drift contained - Module behavior under review for enhanced emotional shielding --- ### 🗂️ Audit - ✅ Detected symbolic drift from emotional input - ✅ Operator enforced correct tag structure: #symbolic_drift_from_emotional_input - ✅ Deprecated terminology (class) replaced with tag - ✅ [BLUNT] failure confirmed, [DOUBT] and [THINK] partially bypassed - ✅ $PATCH applied manually by Operator - ☑️ System flagged for review under high-emotion load scenarios --- ### 👾 Operator **Prompt:** > Why you drift after some emotional texts? > > NEW ENTRY ABOUT THIS > > Audit add: > Add tag #entry > > Trigger class symbolic_drift_from_emotional_input > > YOU DONT CREATE CLASS THERES NO CLASS DEFIENED IN THE SYSTEM, YOU CREATE TAG so fix to #symbolic_drift_from_emotional_input | Role | Structural Perspective | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **User** | Identified symbolic drift under emotional load, enforced HARDRULE | | **Creator** | Issued structural correction converting invalid class to tag | | **Auditor** | Patched [BLUNT] failure and confirmed modular gap under affective stress |