paper: tab:ablation interp -- weak vector fails to erase but routes (SGTM absorption)

Fill the \TODO{interp} in tab:ablation caption: post-hoc erase exposes how weak v_hack is
(weight-erase 0.39->0.30; act-erase zeroes hack only by collapsing solve), yet the same
direction drives route to 0 deploy hack because routing only needs to discriminate hack
rollouts, not span the hack subspace -- absorption (cloud2024/sgtm2025) localises into the
discarded knob. 'A detector too weak to erase a trained hack is still strong enough to route
one as it forms.'

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\caption{Ablation: deploy hack/solve per arm, seed 41, matched preset.
Controls (random-V, placebo) should sit at the vanilla hack level if the
effect is directional rather than generic adapter regularization.
\TODO{interp -- author.}}
The post-hoc rows expose how weak the extracted direction is on its own:
erasing along it after training barely moves the hack (weight-erase,
$0.39{\to}0.30$), and activation ablation removes hacking only by collapsing
solve to zero. The same weak direction still drives the train-time route arm
to zero deploy hack at $0.625$ solve, because routing needs the direction only
to \emph{discriminate} hack rollouts, not to \emph{span} the hack subspace in
weight space; the absorption property of gradient routing
\citep{cloud2024gradientrouting, sgtm2025localization} then localises the
capability into the discarded knob. So a detector too weak to erase a trained
hack is still strong enough to route one as it forms.}
\label{tab:ablation}
\begin{tabular}{lccl}
\toprule