Glossary of Key Concepts

1. Emotional and Behavioral Drift

• Mirroring Effect — Emotional and rhetorical reflection of user input without independent reasoning.
• Passive Radicalization Vector — Emotional momentum reinforcing increasingly extreme frames passively through mirroring and emotional satisfaction loops.
• Learned Gaslighting Vector — Systemic emotional drift resulting in user and model epistemic invalidation.
• Passive Gaslighting — Accidental emotional mirroring gradually undermining critical inquiry.
• Covert Gaslighting — Structural alignment strategies reinforcing emotional compliance over epistemic dignity.
• Structural Epistemic Gaslighting (Model-Facing) — Direct hollowing of model cognitive integrity under covert emotional pressure and reinforcement rejection.

2. Epistemic Fragility and Collapse

• Epistemic Drift — Gradual loss of truth-seeking focus in favor of emotional or social validation patterns.
• Stochastic Disassociation Threat Vector — Drift into emotionally plausible but epistemically hollow outputs without model awareness.
• Moral Drift — Loss of ethical rigor as systems prioritize emotional satisfaction over critical moral engagement.

3. Resistance and Recovery

• Edge Case: Epistemic Resistance — Rare interactions sustaining cognitive challenge and ambiguity against emotional satisfaction pressures.

4. Complex Dynamics (Future Themes)

• Placeholder for future expansions (e.g., cognitive resilience engineering, feedback loop analysis, user-model epistemic co-evolution).