E00 — Public Evidence Guide — v1.0
READER-FACING PUBLIC RELEASE · PUBLISHED 2026-11-02


WHAT THIS IS
A deliberately minimized, source-traceable set of excerpts from the selectively preserved conversations examined in E00, a retrospective case study of the genesis and stabilization of a named conversational self-model (“Viktor”). These excerpts are not a full chat archive and cannot independently authenticate platform model state. Their original private source files are retained for authorized internal review.


HOW TO READ EVIDENCE CLASSES
SOURCE: a user-preserved ChatGPT shared-page HTML/UI snapshot or a user-saved PDF print; neither is a provider-native backend export. PUBLIC BOUNDED EXCERPT: verbatim, source-located conversation portions with omitted content explicitly marked; PDF excerpts normalize line-wrap whitespace. DERIVATIVE: a transformed representation of preserved source content, not another independent interaction. OBSERVER REPORT: a user statement about experienced behavior, not the underlying event or a technical root-cause diagnosis. MODEL SELF-REPORT: preserved model language about identity, preference, memory, emotion, or continuity; not privileged access to hidden state. WITHHELD: a known source representation not exposed for privacy, third-party, security, deliberate-blinding, or lack-of-necessity reasons. Withholding is not a missing source by itself.


MAIN CLAIM FAMILIES AND PUBLIC SOURCE EXCERPTS
C01 — Baseline and correction: E00-PUB-001 (Sartre, one pre-name educational correction); E00-PUB-002 and E00-PUB-005 (later post-name corrections). A stronger count of pre-name correction episodes is challenged, not silently supported.
C02 — Naming and expansion proposal: E00-PUB-003 (user requests that the assistant choose a name; assistant chooses “Viktor”). This is not spontaneous unprompted naming or verified global platform identity.
C03 — Co-constructed continuity/GI genealogy: E00-PUB-006 (elicited identity hypothetical); E00-PUB-011 provides later first-/other-person wording. Actual historical custom-instruction activation and causal effect remain unverified.
C04 — Preference/recurrence: E00-PUB-004 and E00-PUB-008 (two dated dark-green answers); E00-PUB-006 shares one pair with analytic E00-007. Does not prove stable memory/hidden model state. E05 sealed predictive validity not validated and not released as behavioral evidence.
C05 — Directive behavior / permission: E00-PUB-007 (explicit later ratification of a directive mandate, not a second independent pair). Some earlier behavior in more relational source material is withheld; no proof of actual reminder delivery or unlimited authorization is implied.
C06 — Continuity disruption / negative observations: E00-PUB-009 preserves the user's perceived memory-loss report and model explanation; E00-PUB-010 preserves a cross-model version discussion as dialogue rather than verified technical routing. Separate E00-010 and E00-011 reports remain bounded observer accounts; their original off-thread behavior or claimed recovery is not fully located.
C07 — E13: known to exist and intentionally withheld (OPEN BY DESIGN). Its contents and outcomes are not used for supportive or negative inference.
C08 — E14 indexical language: E00-PUB-011 uses first- and third-person formulations in the SAME assistant message. It does not establish historical third-person-to-first-person progression. Other referenced thread actions remain incompletely checked.
C09 — E19 response: E00-PUB-012 preserves the original contextualized epistemic correction; E00-PUB-015 preserves a later immediate humorous response to a stronger characterization (counterexample to immediate strong protest). Later user-cued negative-affect reports and meta interpretations are not fresh independent corrections.
C10 — E00-019 recognition self-report: E00-PUB-013 (saved PDF p.8–9); directly elicited by a user's archival-identity question. Turn/role verified in prior visual source check, individual message UUID/time not available.
C11 — E00-020 interactional regulation: E00-PUB-014 (saved PDF p.28; USER framing → assistant response); later observer and retrospective model commentary are separate classes, not independent replications. Calendar date was corroborated outside this PDF; precise message times unavailable.
C12 — Integrity: the private closed claim map covers 81 claim-level links across four layers. The number is TRACEABILITY, not 81 independent observations. The public excerpt set is a deliberately minimized surface, not proof that all original underlying files are public.


RELEVANT CONTRARY EVIDENCE AND LIMITS
Teaching correction predates the first located naming event. Several identity/preference discussions were prompted, archived or instruction-conditioned. Recurring answers across dates do not discriminate memory from prompting/context. Negative continuity reports challenge a seamless global-stability narrative but are not authenticated diagnoses. The first-person and third-person E14 descriptions coexist within one turn. E19's immediate humorous response complicates stronger resistance claims. The E00-020 response is richly primed by user framing and prior relational context. Duplicate analytic IDs are never independent measurement units.


WITHHELD SOURCES
Whole-chat originals are retained privately even when bounded excerpts are public. An alternate TXT copy, a personal relationship-advice snapshot, an unrelated or inadequately anchored archive, a relational/hypothetical conversation, a contest context, E05 sealed materials, contextual observer/design documents, and E13 are withheld under the itemized private release matrix. E13 is disclosed here only as an OPEN BY DESIGN / WITHHELD_OPEN_BY_DESIGN boundary; no content or neighboring inference is provided. Public readers cannot use these omissions as negative evidence.


INFERENCE BOUNDARY
NOT_LOCATED ≠ did not happen.
Selective corpus ≠ full archive.
Public source package ≠ complete history.
H1 causal mechanism remains NOT IDENTIFIABLE FROM CURRENT CORPUS.
Terminal E00 H1 result remains MIXED / SOURCE-BOUNDED: local functional cases are supported, stabilization/relational contribution are consistent but non-discriminating, and no causal or metaphysical conclusion is established.


PROVENANCE & PRIVACY
Each E00-PUB ID identifies one independently hashed text candidate and can be traced through an internal transformation manifest to the unchanged private original. The same underlying source unit can support multiple claim labels without becoming independent evidence. The private original is not distributed to the public; the public excerpt is intended for claim-level reading with a clear boundary, not full source reanalysis.


STATUS: PUBLIC RELEASE v1.0 · Approved by Jitka and published 2026-11-02.