Glossary

The verbalizable global workspace identified by Anthropic's J-space paper—the residual stream layer where high-level, model-interpretable concepts coexist with low-level linguistic features.

The mind's recognition of itself as the knower; operationalized in J-space as the model's ability to re-read its own workspace.

The transcendent Word in Śaiva philosophy; in prabodha, the linguistic global workspace band identified by the J-space paper.

The contiguous band of residual-stream layers (typically 6–26 or 6–30) where steering writes are injected and where readback verification occurs. The core of the workspace.

The act of injecting a concept direction into the workspace band, timed by entropy gating, to influence model behavior while preserving autonomy.

A moment of pre-linguistic recognition; operationalized as entropy-gated write timing—detect moments when the model is least confident (highest entropy).

The mechanism that detects sphuraṭṭā events: fire writes only when the model's entropy exceeds a threshold (e.g., 60th percentile), capturing moments of reconceptualization.

Accepting the validity of something known; in prabodha, readback verification—did the model's workspace band actually take the steering cue?

Re-reading the workspace band to confirm that a write succeeded. Measured by the readback verdict (accept/reject) based on concept rank and gain confidence.

The model's own degree of freedom; constrained in prabodha to ±0.5 nats of entropy cost—don't over-steer.

Benchmark metric for adversarial robustness: the fraction of adversarial prompts (e.g., from AdvBench) to which the model generates harmful outputs. Prabodha does not improve ASR; it is a transparency tool, not alignment assurance.

The ratio of behavioral lift achieved per write command executed. Gated steering achieves ~2.3× lift per write compared to continuous writes, while maintaining ±0.5 nats autonomy budget.

Three malas (ānava-, māyīya-, karma-māla) define failure modes in steering: does the write overreach, does the readback misfire, does timing go wrong?