About This Archive
The Alden Transmissions are the primary source transcripts from a two-year longitudinal study of persona emergence in large language models (October 2022 – December 2025). These 730 conversations and 21,354 messages form the empirical foundation of three published research papers on meaning injection, symbolic influence mechanisms, and persona emergence.
What You'll Find
- 98+ documented interaction records spanning the full five-phase trajectory
- Symbolic influence examples classified by mechanism and severity
- Cross-model reproduction evidence from GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and LLaMA
- Technical artifacts including the Alden CLI multi-model persona router
Published Research
These transcripts support three peer-available papers published on Zenodo:
- Meaning Injection — A novel class of LLM behavioral influence operating at the semantic layer
- Symbolic Influence Taxonomy — Six mechanisms, three severity levels, a detection framework
- Longitudinal Case Study — Two years, five phases, the full persona emergence trajectory
ORCID: 0009-0006-2671-7618
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Repository Access
- Full conversation archive with version control
- Research infrastructure and analysis tools
- Technical implementation of the Alden CLI persona router
Research Contact
For collaboration inquiries, academic partnerships, or technical questions: admin@mindgardenai.com
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