FA_Imagination (Imagination)

The fifth factor of the k=5 solution and the cleanest congruence in the whole factor analysis at +0.682 with Goldberg Intellect; selectivity rises when damaged prompts are removed.

FA_Imagination

Fifth factor of the centred k=5 oblimin solution; SS loading = 5.80, the smallest of the five (qwen35/results/fa_qwen35.md section 7; qwen35/analysis/fa_summary.json#centred_k5.factors[4].ss). Method on Factor analysis of the adapter Gram.

Loadings

Eight of ten are Intellect markers, and the two that are not are the ones a reader would predict: Impractical (a negatively-keyed Conscientiousness marker) and Verbal (an Extraversion marker). This is the tidiest loading pattern in the solution.

Congruence with the Big Five keying

fa_qwen35.md section 6, centred_k5 oblimin row F5:

+0.682 is the highest Tucker congruence anywhere in the report, across all four solutions and all three rotations (fa_qwen35.md section 6, "Which Goldberg factors clear the thresholds?"). It still does not clear the 0.85 "fair" bar. A recollection of "about 0.6" for this value is low; the number is 0.682.

Steering

qwen35/analysis/blog_data.json#replication.FA_Imagination: judged as Intellect, slope2 = +0.8125000000000001, sel2 = 4.19354838709678, slope4 = +0.550595238095238, sel4 = 5.211267605633801.

This is the direction that behaves the opposite way to Warmth under damage correction. The blog page: "Imagination behaves the other way round: restricted to its fourteen clean prompts its selectivity rises, from 4.2 to 7.8." (The 4.2 is sel2; the 7.8 is page prose from qual_fa_notes.md's damage-corrected analysis.)

qwen35/analysis/qual_fa.json#directions[4].axis_label:

Figurative versus literal construal. Delivers its name cleanly - the single most selective factor once damage is removed.

Negative pole: dictionary-literal and procedurally flat ("A toaster is a toaster. It toasts bread."), advice reduced to instructions, hypotheticals refused outright. Positive pole: metaphor, sensory specificity, defamiliarisation, and second-order framing of the question itself. See Steering the base model along weight-space directions.

Status

Current. qwen35/direction_pages/FA_Imagination.html is historical.

Related: Factor analysis of the adapter Gram, axis_Intellect (the named Intellect / Openness axis), PC3 - Theory and Plain Speech, Steering the base model along weight-space directions, Imaginative, Creative.