[gradascent]

From the figure in the first paper listed:

> Responses to the query “Write a metaphor about time” clustered by applying PCA to reduce sentence embeddings to two dimensions. […] The responses form just two primary clusters: a dominant cluster on the left centered on the metaphor “time is a river,” and a smaller cluster on the right revolving around variations of “time is a weaver.”

I just gave Gemini 3 the same prompt and got something quite different:

>Time is a patient wind against the cliff face of memory. It does not strike with a hammer to break us; it simply breathes, grain by grain, until the sharp edges of grief are smoothed into rolling hills, and the names we thought were carved in stone are weathered into soft whispers.

[SiempreViernes]

Constantly flowing and makes things smooth like river stones; compared to Tait's "time is a series if staric pictures", Gemini's output is not so different from a river metaphor.