Run: 2026-06-24-01KVX34ZF0TCMENZE8QKM8NMS3

Run Details

Model:
Z.AI GLM 5.2 (Reasoning, High)
Test:
Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:
Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:
53.0s
Cost:
$0.009066
Provider:
Z.AI

Evaluation summary

Score Evaluator
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100.00% Adverbs in dialogue tags (details)
86.51% AI-ism adverb frequency (details)
100.00% AI-ism character names (details)
100.00% AI-ism location names (details)
59.53% AI-ism word frequency (details)
100.00% Cliché density (details)
100.00% Emotion telling (show vs. tell) (details)
100.00% Filter word density (details)
100.00% Gibberish response detection (details)
100.00% Markdown formatting overuse (details)
100.00% Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks) (details)
76.55% Name drop frequency (details)
8.49% Narrator intent-glossing (details)
100.00% "Not X but Y" pattern overuse (details)
100.00% Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding) (details)
100.00% Paragraph length variance (details)
95.38% Passive voice overuse (details)
100.00% Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse (details)
100.00% Em-dash & semicolon overuse (details)
94.00% Purple prose (modifier overload) (details)
100.00% Repeated phrase echo (details)
100.00% Sentence length variance (details)
66.29% Sentence opener variety (details)
100.00% Adverb-first sentence starts (details)
100.00% Pronoun-first sentence starts (details)
42.09% Subject-first sentence starts (details)
74.63% Subordinate conjunction sentence starts (details)
77.92% Technical jargon density (details)
0.00% Useless dialogue additions (details)
100.00% Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy) (details)
86.0462% Overall

Model input

System
You are an expert fiction writer. Always keep the following rules in mind: - Write in past tense and use General English spelling, grammar, and colloquialisms/slang. - Write in active voice - Always follow the "show, don't tell" principle. - Avoid adverbs and cliches and overused/commonly used phrases. Aim for fresh and original descriptions. - Convey events and story through dialogue. - Mix short, punchy sentences with long, descriptive ones. Drop fill words to add variety. - Skip "he/she said said" dialogue tags and convey people's actions or face expressions through their speech - Avoid mushy dialog and descriptions, have dialogue always continue the action, never stall or add unnecessary fluff. Vary the descriptions to not repeat yourself. - Put dialogue on its own paragraph to separate scene and action. - Reduce indicators of uncertainty like "trying" or "maybe" When writing text: - NEVER conclude the scene on your own, follow the beat instructions very closely. - NEVER end with foreshadowing. - NEVER write further than what I prompt you with. - AVOID imagining possible endings, NEVER deviate from the instructions. - STOP EARLY if the continuation contains what was required in the instructions. You do not need to fill out the full amount of words possible.
User/Human
Take into account the following glossary of characters/locations/items/lore... when writing your response: <codex> <character id="4412" name="Aurora Carter" aliases="Rory, Laila, Aurora, Carter, Malphora" pronouns="she/her" species="Human" storyRole="Protagonist"> <eyeColor>bright blue</eyeColor> <hair>straight shoulder-length black</hair> <height>5'6"</height> <age>25</age> <scar>small crescent-shaped scar on her left wrist from a childhood accident</scar> <description>Aurora, referred to by her friends as Rory, is cool-headed, intelligent, and known for quick out-of-the-box thinking.</description> <backstory>Born in Cardiff to an Irish barrister father (Brendan Carter) and Welsh teacher mother (Jennifer Carter née Ellis), Rory reluctantly pursued Pre-Law at Cardiff University. She fled to London at the behest of her childhood friend Eva after leaving an abusive ex named Evan. By day, Rory works part-time as a delivery person for Yu-Fei Cheung's Golden Empress restaurant. She lives in a flat above Silas' bar.</backstory> </character> <character id="4418" name="Nyx" aliases="Nyx, the Shadow, Nightwhisper" pronouns="they/them" species="Shade" storyRole="Wild Card"> <eyeColor>faintly glowing violet</eyeColor> <height>approximately 6'2" in solid form</height> <age>ageless</age> <form>humanoid silhouette of living shadow, can shift between solid and incorporeal</form> <voice>sounds like a whisper carried on the wind</voice> <description>A being of living shadow, existing between the mortal plane and the spaces between realms.</description> <backstory>Nyx was once a human sorcerer named Aldric who became trapped between realms during a failed summoning ritual in 1643. They now exist as a Shade, bound to the mortal plane but able to slip between shadows.</backstory> </character> <character id="4424" name="Isolde Varga" aliases="Isolde, the Seer" pronouns="she/her" species="Half-Fae" storyRole="Oracle"> <eyeColor>pale lavender</eyeColor> <hair>silver, reaching her waist</hair> <height>5'5"</height> <age>300 years old</age> <appearance>ethereal, ageless</appearance> <speech>speaks in riddles</speech> <footprints>leaves no footprints when she walks</footprints> <compulsion>cannot lie (Fae compulsion) but can mislead</compulsion> <description>A Half-Fae seer exiled from the Fae Courts for sharing visions with mortals.</description> <backstory>She now lives in a hidden grove in Richmond Park, offering cryptic prophecies to those who seek her out.</backstory> </character> <location id="853" name="Dymas (Gluttony)" aliases="Dymas, gluttony, Dymasian" realm="Hel" sin="Gluttony"> <ruler>Prince Belphegor</ruler> <skyColor>warm amber</skyColor> <description>A place of excess and indulgence. Sprawling vineyards, orchards, and gardens provide exotic ingredients for master chefs — often helbound souls contracted from Earth. Grand feasts and culinary competitions are common.</description> </location> <location id="861" name="The Fae Grove" aliases="Isolde's grove, Richmond grove, the Grove" realm="Earth (Fae-touched)"> <parkLocation>Richmond Park</parkLocation> <standingStones>ancient oak standing stones mark the boundary</standingStones> <timeBehavior>time moves differently — an hour inside can be minutes or days outside</timeBehavior> <flora>wildflowers bloom year-round</flora> <description>A hidden clearing that exists in a pocket between Earth and the Fae realm.</description> </location> <item id="2001" name="Heartstone Pendant" aliases="the pendant, Heartstone" type="Artifact" origin="Dymas"> <gemstoneColor>deep crimson</gemstoneColor> <chainMaterial>silver chain</chainMaterial> <size>roughly the size of a thumbnail</size> <behavior>pulses faintly with warmth when near a Hel portal</behavior> <glow>faint inner glow</glow> <description>Given to Aurora by an unknown benefactor.</description> </item> <item id="2006" name="Fae-Forged Blade" aliases="the Fae blade, Isolde's gift" type="Weapon" origin="The Fae Courts"> <material>moonsilver</material> <shape>slender, leaf-shaped dagger</shape> <temperature>always cold to the touch</temperature> <glow>faintly luminescent in moonlight</glow> <power>can cut through magical wards; particularly effective against demons</power> <givenTo>given to Aurora by Isolde as a gift</givenTo> <description>A weapon of the Fae Courts, rare and highly coveted.</description> </item> <lore id="7001" name="The Veil" aliases="the Veil, the Barrier, the Boundary" category="Cosmology"> <solsticeEffect>weakens during the winter solstice, strengthens during the summer solstice</solsticeEffect> <appearance>faint shimmering distortion visible only to those with supernatural sight</appearance> <monitoring>rift points (tears in the Veil) are monitored by the Wardens</monitoring> <description>The Veil is the metaphysical barrier separating Earth from Hel and the Fae Realms.</description> </lore> </codex> Continue the story using the following instructions: <instructions> Write a fully fleshed out scene of at least 1000 words in the fantasy genre. A small group enters an ancient, otherworldly place for the first time. The environment is alien and wondrous. Describe their exploration — what they see, hear, and feel as they move deeper. Include moments of discovery, unease, and wonder. Let the world-building emerge through the characters' experience rather than exposition. Use the codex entries above as your world reference for characters, setting, and lore. Only include the prose of the scene without any markdown or commentary. </instructions>

Model response

AI
The standing stones rose from the earth like broken teeth, their surfaces gnarled and knotted with the shapes of roots pressed flat beneath bark so old it had turned to stone. Oak stones. Rory counted seven of them, arranged in a loose circle that didn't quite close, the gap between the final pair wide enough for two people to walk abreast. She stopped at the threshold. The pendant against her sternum pulsed once, a heartbeat of warmth that faded as quickly as it came. "You feel that?" Nyx coalesced at her left shoulder, their violet eyes dim in the November dusk. They had been little more than a smear of shadow against the park's hedgerows for the last twenty minutes, conserving whatever energy sustained them on this side of the Veil. Now they solidified, tall and angular, their silhouette edged with a faint shimmer where London's distant streetlights caught the wrongness of their form. "The boundary is thin here." Their voice was barely more than a breath stirring the cold air. "Thinner than the rift points the Wardens seal. This is not a tear. This was made." "Made by whom?" Nyx offered no answer. They rarely did when the question mattered. Rory turned to the third member of their party. Eva had come without being asked, the way she always did, her arms folded across her chest and her chin tucked into the collar of her jacket. She looked unimpressed. She also looked terrified. Rory had known her long enough to read both as the same expression. "It's a bunch of rocks in a park, Rory." "It's Richmond. These aren't on any map." "Maybe the council forgot." "Eva." "Fine. Weird rocks in a park. After you." The gap between the stones exhaled. There was no other word for it. A current of air pushed outward, warm and thick with the scent of honeysuckle and wet earth and something sweeter underneath, something that had no name in any language Rory spoke. She stepped through. The park vanished. Not gradually, not with a fade or a shimmer. One footfall landed on frost-stiffened grass and the next on soft, living moss, and London was gone. The noise of it, the constant arterial hum of traffic and planes and eight million lives stacked on top of each other, simply ceased. What replaced it was silence so complete it had texture, a velvet pressure against the eardrums. Then sound returned in layers. Birdsong first, but not any bird Rory could name, a descending trill that sounded almost like a question repeated. Then wind, though the air around them was still. Then a distant murmur, like a stream moving over smooth stones. Rory looked back. The standing stones were still there, framing a view of Richmond Park's oak and bramble, but the image had the quality of a reflection in dark water, slightly rippled, slightly wrong. Eva stepped through a beat later and stumbled, her hand shooting out to grip Rory's arm. "What the hell." "I know." "No, Rory, what the actual hell." "I know." Eva's grip tightened. Her eyes were wide and fixed on the sky. Rory followed her gaze and understood. The sky was wrong. Not in colour, though the deep violet bleeding into soft gold along an impossibly distant horizon would have been enough. The sky was wrong because it had depth. It went back and back and back, layers of atmosphere stacked like panes of tinted glass, and at its farthest reach something moved. Not clouds. Not stars. Something vast and slow, turning in a place so far above that it registered only as a sensation, a weight behind the eyes. "Don't look at it." Nyx had moved ahead, their form bleeding into the shadows between the grove's trees. Their voice came from everywhere. "It doesn't notice being seen. But it remembers." Eva dropped her gaze. Her hand was still clamped on Rory's arm. Rory covered it with her own and squeezed once, then stepped forward into the grove. The trees here were not oaks. They were not any species that had ever grown in a British park. Their trunks spiralled, pale bark peeling in ribbons that caught the strange light like strips of parchment, and their branches wove together overhead in a lattice so intricate it looked deliberate. Woven. The leaves were silver on one side and deep green on the other, and they turned in the still air, each one independent, creating a rippling effect like light on water. The moss beneath their feet was blue-green and springy, and it released a scent of thunderstorms when compressed. Wildflowers grew in clusters between the roots, species Rory had never seen, blooms in colours that didn't quite exist in the spectrum she knew. One flower, a trumpet-shaped thing the colour of a bruise, turned to face her as she passed. She quickened her pace. The grove opened into a clearing. Here the woven canopy parted and the impossible sky poured light down onto a pool of water so still it might have been glass. The surface reflected not the sky above but a different sky, one streaked with amber and heavy with what looked like vineyards stretching to the horizon. Rory's pendant flared hot against her skin and she flinched, pressing her hand to her chest. "That's not here." Nyx reformed at the pool's edge, crouching, their shadow-form denser in this place, more defined. The violet of their eyes burned brighter. "That is Dymas. The pool shows what the Veil touches. This grove sits at a crossroads." "Dymas. Gluttony." Rory said the word like it tasted of ash. "Why am I seeing it?" "Because you're meant to." The voice came from behind them, from the far side of the clearing where the trees parted to reveal a figure that hadn't been there a moment before. Silver hair fell to her waist. She wore a dress the colour of birch bark, and her feet made no sound on the moss, left no impression on its surface. Her eyes were pale lavender and they held Rory with the weight of three centuries. Eva took a step backward. Nyx rose to their full height, edges sharpening. Isolde smiled, and it was the smile of something that could not lie but had learned, across long years, to arrange the truth into shapes that cut. "Aurora Carter. You carry my gift and you carry a stone that belongs to a realm you've never walked." She tilted her head, birdlike, assessing. "And yet here you stand, in my grove, uninvited but not unwanted. The difference between those two things is a matter of perspective. Would you like to hear mine?"
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Evaluation details

Result Evaluator Details Meta Data
100.00% Adverbs in dialogue tags
Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs
totalTags5
adverbTagCount0
adverbTags(empty)
dialogueSentences22
tagDensity0.227
leniency0.455
rawRatio0
effectiveRatio0
86.51% AI-ism adverb frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)
wordCount1112
totalAiIsmAdverbs3
found
0
adverb"quickly"
count1
1
adverb"slightly"
count2
highlights
0"quickly"
1"slightly"
100.00% AI-ism character names
Target: 0 AI-default names (17 tracked, −20% each)
codexExemptions(empty)
found(empty)
100.00% AI-ism location names
Target: 0 AI-default location names (33 tracked, −20% each)
codexExemptions(empty)
found(empty)
59.53% AI-ism word frequency
Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)
wordCount1112
totalAiIsms9
found
0
word"pulsed"
count1
1
word"warmth"
count1
2
word"footfall"
count1
3
word"silence"
count1
4
word"velvet"
count1
5
word"weight"
count2
6
word"intricate"
count1
7
word"quickened"
count1
highlights
0"pulsed"
1"warmth"
2"footfall"
3"silence"
4"velvet"
5"weight"
6"intricate"
7"quickened"
100.00% Cliché density
Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window
totalCliches0
maxInWindow0
found(empty)
highlights(empty)
100.00% Emotion telling (show vs. tell)
Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling
emotionTells1
narrationSentences71
matches
0"looked terrified"
100.00% Filter word density
Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words
filterCount0
hedgeCount0
narrationSentences71
filterMatches(empty)
hedgeMatches(empty)
100.00% Gibberish response detection
Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)
analyzedSentences88
gibberishSentences0
adjustedGibberishSentences0
longSentenceCount0
runOnParagraphCount0
giantParagraphCount0
wordSaladCount0
repetitionLoopCount0
controlTokenCount0
repeatedSegmentCount0
maxSentenceWordsSeen31
ratio0
matches(empty)
100.00% Markdown formatting overuse
Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting
markdownSpans0
markdownWords0
totalWords1112
ratio0
matches(empty)
100.00% Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)
Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks
totalAttributions3
unquotedAttributions0
matches(empty)
76.55% Name drop frequency
Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words
totalMentions31
wordCount953
uniqueNames9
maxNameDensity1.47
worstName"Rory"
maxWindowNameDensity2.5
worstWindowName"Rory"
discoveredNames
November1
Veil1
London2
Nyx5
Rory14
Richmond1
Park1
British1
Eva5
persons
0"Nyx"
1"Rory"
2"Eva"
places
0"November"
1"London"
2"Richmond"
3"Park"
4"British"
globalScore0.765
windowScore0.833
8.49% Narrator intent-glossing
Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns
analyzedSentences53
glossingSentenceCount3
matches
0"quite close, the gap between the final pair wide enough for two people to walk abreast"
1"quite exist in the spectrum she knew"
2"looked like vineyards stretching to the h"
100.00% "Not X but Y" pattern overuse
Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words
totalMatches1
per1kWords0.899
wordCount1112
matches
0"not the sky above but a different sky, one streaked with amber"
100.00% Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)
Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses
thatCount1
totalSentences88
matches
0"shapes that cut"
100.00% Paragraph length variance
Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts
totalParagraphs37
mean30.05
std26.61
cv0.885
sampleLengths
061
123
23
367
433
53
611
756
89
97
104
111
128
1347
143
1566
1644
1750
183
192
206
212
2218
2382
2431
2527
2682
2759
284
2972
3041
3116
324
3373
3413
3527
3654
95.38% Passive voice overuse
Target: ≤2% passive sentences
passiveCount2
totalSentences71
matches
0"being asked"
1"was gone"
100.00% Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse
Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs
pastProgressiveCount0
totalVerbs155
matches(empty)
100.00% Em-dash & semicolon overuse
Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons
emDashCount0
semicolonCount0
flaggedSentences0
totalSentences88
ratio0
matches(empty)
94.00% Purple prose (modifier overload)
Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking
wordCount957
adjectiveStacks1
stackExamples
0"moving over smooth stones."
adverbCount37
adverbRatio0.038662486938349006
lyAdverbCount9
lyAdverbRatio0.009404388714733543
100.00% Repeated phrase echo
Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)
totalSentences88
echoCount0
echoWords(empty)
100.00% Sentence length variance
Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts
totalSentences88
mean12.64
std9.3
cv0.736
sampleLengths
031
12
228
35
418
53
614
730
823
917
1016
113
124
137
149
1527
163
174
1813
199
207
214
221
238
246
257
2631
273
283
299
3017
3124
3216
335
3419
359
3611
373
3831
3916
403
412
426
432
443
459
466
474
4820
498
66.29% Sentence opener variety
Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers
consecutiveRepeats5
diversityRatio0.4318181818181818
totalSentences88
uniqueOpeners38
100.00% Adverb-first sentence starts
Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb
adverbCount3
totalSentences67
matches
0"Then sound returned in layers."
1"Then wind, though the air"
2"Then a distant murmur, like"
ratio0.045
100.00% Pronoun-first sentence starts
Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun
pronounCount17
totalSentences67
matches
0"She stopped at the threshold."
1"They had been little more"
2"Their voice was barely more"
3"They rarely did when the"
4"She looked unimpressed."
5"She also looked terrified."
6"She stepped through."
7"Her eyes were wide and"
8"It went back and back"
9"Their voice came from everywhere."
10"Her hand was still clamped"
11"They were not any species"
12"Their trunks spiralled, pale bark"
13"She quickened her pace."
14"She wore a dress the"
15"Her eyes were pale lavender"
16"She tilted her head, birdlike,"
ratio0.254
42.09% Subject-first sentence starts
Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject
subjectCount56
totalSentences67
matches
0"The standing stones rose from"
1"Rory counted seven of them,"
2"She stopped at the threshold."
3"The pendant against her sternum"
4"Nyx coalesced at her left"
5"They had been little more"
6"Their voice was barely more"
7"Nyx offered no answer."
8"They rarely did when the"
9"Rory turned to the third"
10"Eva had come without being"
11"She looked unimpressed."
12"She also looked terrified."
13"Rory had known her long"
14"The gap between the stones"
15"A current of air pushed"
16"She stepped through."
17"The park vanished."
18"The noise of it, the"
19"Birdsong first, but not any"
ratio0.836
74.63% Subordinate conjunction sentence starts
Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction
subConjCount1
totalSentences67
matches
0"Now they solidified, tall and"
ratio0.015
77.92% Technical jargon density
Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns
analyzedSentences33
technicalSentenceCount3
matches
0"Rory counted seven of them, arranged in a loose circle that didn't quite close, the gap between the final pair wide enough for two people to walk abreast."
1"A current of air pushed outward, warm and thick with the scent of honeysuckle and wet earth and something sweeter underneath, something that had no name in any …"
2"Their trunks spiralled, pale bark peeling in ribbons that caught the strange light like strips of parchment, and their branches wove together overhead in a latt…"
0.00% Useless dialogue additions
Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments
totalTags5
uselessAdditionCount2
matches
0"Nyx had, their form bleeding into the shadows between the grove's trees"
1"She tilted, birdlike, assessing"
100.00% Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)
Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags
totalTags1
fancyCount0
fancyTags(empty)
dialogueSentences22
tagDensity0.045
leniency0.091
rawRatio0
effectiveRatio0
86.0462%