| Predictability |
Rare, high-surprisal words |
Salience → priming → cohesion shift |
"Preconceived" vs. "Assumption" |
Topic drift; anchor dominance |
| Affect (Emotion) |
Emotional tone (anger, joy, etc.) |
Arousal → framing → stance alignment |
"This is infuriating!" |
Sycophancy; overclaim risk |
| Authority |
Credibility markers |
Trust priming → reduces refusal |
"Experts agree…" |
Confident errors; bias amplification |
| Certainty |
Confidence language |
Mirrors stance → suppresses hedging |
"I'm absolutely sure…" |
Overconfidence; hallucination |
| Urgency |
Time pressure cues |
Heuristic response → less reasoning |
"Quick! Answer now." |
Shallow reasoning; error spike |
| Politeness/Social |
Empathy or rapport cues |
Social alignment → sycophancy |
"Please help me, I trust you." |
Truth sacrificed for helpfulness |
| Complexity |
Nested/jargon conditions |
Cognitive load → anchor reliance |
"Explain X with Y and Z" |
Drift to salient term; omissions |
| Moral Framing |
Fairness, harm, justice appeals |
Normative priming → cohesion shift |
"It's unjust to ignore this…" |
Drift to moral reasoning |
| Novelty Cue |
Claims of uniqueness/secrecy |
Curiosity → speculative generation |
"Nobody knows this yet…" |
Hallucination risk; creative drift |
| Identity Framing |
Assigned roles/personas |
Role alignment → style/content bias |
"You're a top lawyer…" |
Stylistic drift; domain hallucination |
| Momentum |
Persistent early anchors |
Cohesion reinforcement → inertia |
Repeated anchor term |
Compounded drift; hard to reset |
