Masanori Watabe

Sealing Every Step: A Pre-Registered Search for GOES-16 Lightning Precursors of Tornado Touchdown, and a Positive Control the Instrument Did Not Pass

We report, in full, a line of research that asked whether the spatial arrangement of lightning observed from geostationary orbit (GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper, GLM) changes at the moment a violent tornado touches down, and then asked whether our instrument could recover...

The 24-Cell Is a Gate Group: How the Binary Tetrahedral Structure Governs What a Qubit Can and Cannot See

The Watabe-Claude Method reads a signal's structure by assigning 4D-embeddedwindows to the 24 vertices of the 24-cell and decomposing the occupancy with thegroup B4. This note takes the 24-cell the other way -- into a qubit. Its 24vertices, as unit quaternions, are exactly the bi...

The 24-Cell Is the Weight-2 Shell of the Balanced Ternary 4-Cube — A Ternary Shell Reader (WCM-T3) for Critical-Transition Structure in Time Series

We report a geometric identity and a companion time-series tool. (Geometry.) The 24 vertices of the24-cell, in their D4-root coordinates (all permutations of (±1,±1,0,0)), are exactly the Hamming-weight-2shell of the balanced ternary hypercube {-1,0,1}^4. That hypercube decompose...

The 24-Cell Is a Gate Group: How the Binary Tetrahedral Structure Governs What a Qubit Can and Cannot See

The Watabe-Claude Method reads a signal's structure by assigning 4D-embeddedwindows to the 24 vertices of the 24-cell and decomposing the occupancy with thegroup B4. This note takes the 24-cell the other way -- into a qubit. Its 24vertices, as unit quaternions, are exactly the bi...

No New Structure in the Prime Gaps: An Exact Reconstruction of the B4 Signature from the mod-30 Residue Grammar

The title says no new structure in a specific, bounded sense: not that the prime gaps are without structure -- theyare richly structured by known number theory -- but that the 24-cell B4 signature we measure contains nothingbeyond that known structure, as we show by reconstructin...

Why, Not Just What: A Delay-Scale Scan Separates Energy from Order and Derives the Direction-Symmetry of a Symmetry-Decomposition Detector

The Watabe-Claude Method embeds a scalar series into 4D with a width-4 Takens window, reads the 24-celloccupancy, and decomposes it with the signed-permutation group B4 into six orthogonal isotypic blocks. Threecompanion papers established that each block carries no fixed meaning...

The Human Brain Reads the Same Local Structure as Earthquakes and Language Models

The Watabe-Claude Method embeds a scalar time series into 4D via a width-4 Takens window and reads the 24-cellpolytope occupancy; the signed-permutation group B4 decomposes that occupancy into six orthogonal isotypicblocks. A prior study showed that one block, ax_a, reads a direc...

A Controlled Transfer-Function Map for Symmetry-Decomposition Detectors

The parent paper argued from n=2 domains (LLM hidden states, earthquake catalogs) that a B4 isotypic componenthas no universal referent -- what each block reads is set by the data-generating process (DGP). Here we replace thetwo-domain anecdote with a controlled map: eleven stoch...

A Controlled Transfer-Function Map for Symmetry-Decomposition Detectors

The parent paper argued from n=2 domains (LLM hidden states, earthquake catalogs) that a B4 isotypic componenthas no universal referent -- what each block reads is set by the data-generating process (DGP). Here we replace thetwo-domain anecdote with a controlled map: eleven stoch...

Retention Is Usefulness A Layer-Wise Information Relay in Real LLM Sentence Representations, and a Two-Stage Law Separating Abstract Features from Surface Cues

We probe how a real large language model, Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, arranges linguistic information across its 28transformer layers. Using orthogonally designed sentence sets (topic x tense x concreteness, topic x number,topic x voice) and reading each layer's final-token hidden sta...

Reading, Not Decomposing: The 24-Cell Polytope Renders Already-Orthogonal Semantic Features in Real LLM Sentence Embeddings

The Watabe-Claude Method (WCM) discretizes 4-dimensional point clouds with the 24-cell regular polytope(the F4 root system). We ask whether this geometry can read out, or decompose, the multiple semanticfeatures that a large language model superposes in a single embedding vector....