Chapter 6 of 13 · 2 min read
Two Scores, Worked Line by Line
A transparent reconstruction of the pinned 11 and 51 calibration examples.
Inside ~Cortisol Checker~ · v1.0 · edition history · Moses Sam Paul
The public 0.4.1 fixture pins two contrasting samples. They show both addition and regulation rather than presenting the score as an opaque judgment.
Example A: regulated pressure
The deadline matters, but we have time to review the evidence and decide carefully.
The lexical detector finds deadline, an urgency cue with weight 7. It is the strongest signal in that category, so round(7 × 0.55) gives a lexical component of 4.
The word deadline also activates the workload-pressure context frame, worth 6. The detected urgency category adds a one-time context boost of 6. Context threat is therefore 12. The phrase evidence activates an evidence marker of -5, producing a calming regulation offset of -5.
4 lexical
+ 12 context threat
+ 0 social-evaluative threat
+ 0 outrage mechanics
- 5 regulation
= 11
The result is 11/100, Calm / neutral, with medium confidence. The score does not say the deadline is irrelevant. It represents pressure language occurring alongside evidence-oriented regulation.
Example B: accumulated work pressure
I am overwhelmed by this urgent deadline, cannot sleep, and my heart is racing.
The detector finds four positive categories: overload (overwhelmed, 14), urgency (urgent, 8 is stronger than deadline, 7), sleep disruption (cannot sleep, 13), and somatic tension (heart is racing, 12). Applying 0.55 to the strongest signal in each category gives 7.7 + 4.4 + 7.15 + 6.6 = 25.85, rounded to a lexical component of 26.
Context threat includes workload pressure and unique boosts for overload, urgency, sleep disruption, and somatic tension. Their raw sum exceeds the component ceiling, so it is capped at 25. No social, outrage, or regulation component applies.
26 lexical
+ 25 context threat
+ 0 social-evaluative threat
+ 0 outrage mechanics
+ 0 regulation
= 51
The result is 51/100, Emotional load, with medium confidence, high urgency framing, and medium medical-distress framing. The matched “heart is racing” phrase is somatic language. Safety remains none because body-arousal language is not automatically an urgent medical-safety pattern.
4 lexical + 12 context - 5 evidence marker.
26 lexical + capped 25 context.
No identity, profile, or personal history changes either score.
These examples are calibration evidence, not scientific validation. Their value is reproducibility: a reader can trace every point to an explicit rule and run the same fixture against the same version.