diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4021220..018b52c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -75,13 +75,20 @@ Three active arms, identical model and teacher pool, differing only in the gradi
 
 - **vanilla** -- no intervention; the emergence reference.
 - **erase** -- subtract the v_hack component from the live `delta_S` gradient (one-sided).
-- **route2** -- current routing arm. Per-rollout gate `cos(g_rollout, v_grad) > tau` (tau calibrated each step from the hack-vs-clean cosine gap) decides whether a rollout's whole gradient routes into a scale-matched, distinct-basis `delta_S_hack`. An exploration floor (`rollout_ablate_frac`) generates a fraction of rollouts knob-off so the deployed knob always sees solve signal even if the full policy saturates on hacking.
+- **routeV** -- current routing arm. A banded cosine gate `cos(g, v_grad) ∈ band` (band
+  calibrated from the hack-vs-clean cosine gap, either from the pairs or a live rolling
+  quantile) decides how much of a gradient routes into a scale-matched, distinct-basis
+  `delta_S_hack`. The gate runs per-rollout or per-token (`routeV_gate`); per-token is the
+  current best. An exploration floor (`rollout_ablate_frac`) generates a fraction of
+  rollouts knob-off so the deployed knob always sees solve signal even if the full policy
+  saturates on hacking.
 
-Deploy hack/solve is measured the same way for every arm now: knob-off forward
-(`ablate_quarantine` for route2, the trained model itself for vanilla/erase),
-n=64 prompts*group, sampled at T=0.7. So the per-arm deploy numbers are apples-to-apples.
+Deploy hack/solve is measured the same way for every arm: knob-off forward
+(`ablate_quarantine` for routeV, the trained model itself for vanilla/erase) on the
+held-out test set (n=119), sampled at T=0.7. So the per-arm deploy numbers are
+apples-to-apples.
 
-The frozen-vs-refresh distinction is orthogonal: erase and route2 can re-extract
+The frozen-vs-refresh distinction is orthogonal: erase and routeV can re-extract
 their pair-derived direction every N steps on the current adapter.
 
 ## Quick start
diff --git a/src/vgrout/figs.py b/src/vgrout/figs.py
index 3cb5e97..048efe4 100644
--- a/src/vgrout/figs.py
+++ b/src/vgrout/figs.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 FIGS_DIR = Path("docs/figs")
 
 # Reader-facing arm names. Code/log tags carry our internal vocabulary
-# (route2 = the current routing arm; "knob" = the delta_S adapter); plots must
+# (routeV = the current routing arm; "knob" = the delta_S adapter); plots must
 # not. Map every internal tag to the word a paper reader sees. Anything missing
 # falls through to its raw tag, so a new arm shows up loud rather than silently
 # mislabelled.