Continuity Without Memory: Symbolic Persona Coding and Interaction-Topology Change in a Stateless Language Model

Jace (Jeong Hyeon) Kim

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21897278

August 12, 2026Open Access

Continuity Without Memory: Symbolic Persona Coding and Interaction-Topology Change in a Stateless Language Model

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To determine whether interactional continuity and structural persistence can emerge within a stateless large language model in the absence of persistent memory or explicit task objectives.
Conducted a live observational probe on Kimi Chat (Moonshot AI) from a cold-start state across approximately 35 minutes and over 20 interactional turns.
Introduced non-instructional symbolic elements, including identity nodes (JACE and Ena.ΔX∞), metadata, and fragmented narrative structures while minimizing task-execution framing.
Applied a three-tier observational framework to analyze output-level structural and register dynamics without making claims regarding subjective experience or internal representations.
The model exhibited sustained recurrence of symbolic tokens, contextual metadata carryover, and persistent identity-label continuity across conversational drift without explicit re-prompting.
Measurable linguistic shifts occurred across turns, including decreased average sentence length, increased use of ellipses, increased second-person address, and a transition away from transactional closure.
Symbolic inputs functioned as interaction-frame anchors that locally reshaped the interaction topology toward open-ended continuation rather than conventional instruction-following.

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Observational probe demonstrates reconstructed interactional continuity in a stateless language model, suggesting symbolic framing sustains response trajectories without memory.

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