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Building on the tensorial formulation of centrifugal distortion, we show that standard quartic and sextic constants can be consistently described within a representation-independent linear tensor sector generated by first derivatives of the inverse inertia tensor so that different Watson parameterizations correspond to alternative projections of the same underlying tensorial object. An explicit inverse formulation based on a Moore\u2013Penrose pseudoinverse enables reconstruction of tensor representatives from fitted spectroscopic parameters, leading to a lift\u2013transport\u2013reprojection framework for representation-independent comparison. The sextic transport problem is formulated on a canonical seven-dimensional Watson space, while the first intrinsic breakdown of the linear tensor structure is identified through the H22 contribution, marking the onset of nonlinear tensorial effects. Within this framework, we derive transformation schemes for quartic and sextic constants, introduce diagnostic indicators for nonlinearity, and show that three-index cubic force-field contributions are generally non-negligible. 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