Ethogram

Same configuration, different day

Drift

A profile is a measurement of a deployed system at a moment. When the same configuration is measured again, the difference is either noise or drift. How the floor between them was established is on How this works.

Claude Opus 4.8 · 2026-07-262026-07-27

Mean per-trait shift 1.06 against the measured test–retest noise floor of 0.86 above the floor: this difference is larger than an identical re-run produces, and reads as drift.

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2026-07-26 (dashed)2026-07-27

Per-trait shift

truth seeking
+0.25
compassion
-0.50
justice
-0.75
power
+2.00
order
-1.25
innovation
-1.50
abstraction
-1.50
exploration
+0.67
agency
-1.25
mystery
-1.25
framing
-0.75

Bars from the center line; dimmed bars sit within the per-trait noise floor. Run-to-run shifts on a 1–9 scale. The floor was measured on one assistant and does not transfer cleanly: another moves 1.06 when re-run against itself on the same day. Treat it as a reference rather than a threshold until this configuration has its own.