The address is built through depth.

Causal half. Replace only the residual entering layer L at the final prompt position. Continue the remaining layers normally and read next-token logits; no generation and no weight editing. Four wordings, 48 retained prompts, 1,169 transplants. The different-relation arm has 23 eligible pairs per depth; the other arms have 48.

The primary gap compares full-vocabulary KL under wrong-binding and same-binding transplants. Recipient retention alone is insufficient: donor-answer rate distinguishes incompatibility from transporting a value. Self-splicing must reproduce the baseline bit-identically.

Reader Part 2b. 194 retained prompts, 20 bindings, 14 entities, capital and language, 12 wordings. Three folds hold out 4 wordings and train on 8. PCA dimension 128; ridge 1.0. Component-specific same-layer gates were frozen before measurement: relation ≥ .85, entity ≥ .40, binding ≥ .30. All pass, but entity and binding pass only in the confounded endpoint band.

The original hypothesis needed reframing. Wrong-entity swaps were as harmless as same-binding swaps through L20, so the early convergence is not binding-specific. The original causal gate condition 2 failed. Coordinate-change support is for relation only.

Bank boundary. Currency and continent could not be made reachable with the same wording bank. Relation-specific wordings would entangle relation with phrasing. This note makes no claim beyond capital versus language.

* L28–30 may be answer decoding. Chance floors: relation .50; entity .071; binding .05. Weak early entity/binding readability is not evidence of complete absence.

All displayed tables round values for reading. The JSON files retain full recorded precision, gate values and the causal KL gap at each depth.

The first Part 2 had about 1.5 training examples per binding class. Entity accuracy stayed around .14 in all 21 cells. It is an instrument failure, not evidence about the model. Part 2b repairs coverage and uses component-specific gates; the relation threshold was raised to .85 before readability was inspected.

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Causal rows SHA-256 (reported by harness)

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Reader Part 2b result SHA-256 (reported by harness)

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