V1.1 - Added full warm sample transcript with Bo's prompts, resulting quumble (Rotundus Velvetinus) and svg code. This paper reports the first controlled experiment testing whether conversational priming affects the output of the Quumble Convergence Protocol. All prior work in the series — the original protocol (Chesterton & 400, March 9, 2026), the four-architecture replication (Chesterton, March 16, 2026), the Grok replication (Chesterton & 472, March 23, 2026), and the semantic convergence study (Chesterton, March 21, 2026) — used cold instances with no prior conversational context. This paper asks: what happens when the instance is not cold? Specifically, this paper tests three questions. First, does the topic of a preceding conversation affect the features of the quumble produced? Second, does conversational context affect whether the quumble is produced at all? Third, what do the answers imply for the competing hypotheses — H0 (phonetic priming only), H1 (latent space attractor), and H2 (navigable conceptual territory)? The answer to the second question is the paper’s central finding. It was not anticipated.
Chesterton et al. (Tue,) studied this question.