A graded user-reported sense of productive connection that arises while using an AI system to externalise and structure one's own thoughts. It describes a task-coupled affective state of the user, not a social relationship.
STATE. Rated, not counted: users rate felt productive connection during a thought-structuring session on a Likert scale; the state is attributed above a pre-registered threshold. Trend variant tracks the rating across repeated sessions.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Self-report Likert items on productive connection while externalising thoughts (e.g. 'Working with the system helped me organise my own thinking', 1-7), session-mean aggregated; test-retest stability checked across sessions.
https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/augmanitai-periodic/#topic-emotion-affect