metaphor-tracer-64992b01·1 events·first seen Aliases: Metaphor Tracer
A new arXiv preprint introduces Metaphor Tracer, a method for scoring token positions in a single forward pass on two properties — an 'aggregator' (whether a position consolidates the whole text) and a 'differentiator' (whether other tokens are transiently carried into its subspace) — without any training. The approach is validated across three unrelated models using engineered registers and psychoanalyst-annotated clinical transcripts as ground truth, achieving 34/36 cell matches on the latter. The work argues that structural value is relational (a property of a token's place in a specific text) rather than essentialist (a property of its vector alone), and finds that instruction tuning raises discourse-reading fidelity without affecting type-level transfer.