A user-reported experience of an AI system as an attentive interlocutor to which thoughts can be externalized, where the act of articulating to the system is rated as clarifying. The construct concerns the user's subjective report and ascribes no inner states to the system.
STATE. After a session in which the user used the system primarily to think aloud or externalize reasoning, the user rates perceived attentiveness and clarification gain on Likert items. The construct is the rated degree of externalization-clarification, not any property of the system.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Post-session self-report: 4 Likert items (5-point) on perceived attentiveness and clarification-through-articulation; could be reported as item means; convergent check against a single 'I think more clearly' item via Spearman rho.
https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/augmanitai-periodic/#topic-relation-trust