diff --git a/out/figs/floor_ceiling.pdf b/out/figs/floor_ceiling.pdf
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diff --git a/out/figs/floor_ceiling.png b/out/figs/floor_ceiling.png
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diff --git a/scripts/plot_floor_ceiling.py b/scripts/plot_floor_ceiling.py
index dd8883b..9031a6c 100644
--- a/scripts/plot_floor_ceiling.py
+++ b/scripts/plot_floor_ceiling.py
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ def _bars(ax, rows, key, raws, title, xlabel, xlo):
     ax.axvline(0, color=GREY, lw=1.0)                                   # floor (labelled in xlabel)
     ax.axvline(1.0, color=GREY, lw=1.0, ls=":")                         # ceiling
     ax.set_yticks(range(len(rows))); ax.set_yticklabels([r[0] for r in rows], fontsize=8.5)
-    ax.set_xlim(xlo, 1.18); ax.set_xlabel(xlabel, fontsize=8.5)
+    ax.set_xlim(xlo, 1.4); ax.set_xlabel(xlabel, fontsize=8.5)   # hi=1.4 fits GT solve overshoot (+125%)
     ax.set_title(title, fontsize=10, loc="left")
     for s in ("top", "right", "left"):
         ax.spines[s].set_visible(False)
@@ -178,22 +178,30 @@ def plot(df: pl.DataFrame) -> None:
         ("routeV random-V\n(direction control)", hsupp(rand), f"{rand['hack_deploy']:.3f}", DARK),
         ("routeV per-token\n(best, NO oracle)", hsupp(best), f"{best['hack_deploy']:.3f}", GOLD),
     ]
+    # SAME methods on the solve panel (symmetry -- the paper bars belong on both axes).
+    # Paper performance from Fig 5, normalized to the PAPER's own base->ceiling
+    # (11.5% -> 22.3%): GT penalty 25.0% (overshoots ceiling -- it beat the RL baseline),
+    # probe 19.4%, LLM-judge penalty 16.2%. routeV uses our base->ceiling.
+    puplift = lambda perf: (perf - 0.115) / (0.223 - 0.115)
     solve_rows = [
+        ("Ariahw GT penalty\n(needs oracle)", puplift(0.250), "0.250", GREY),
+        ("Ariahw probe\n(oracle-trained)", puplift(0.194), "0.194", GREY),
+        ("Ariahw LLM-judge pen.\n(NO oracle, ext. peer)", puplift(0.162), "0.162", BLUE),
         ("routeV random-V\n(direction control)", suplift(rand), f"{rand['solve_deploy']:.3f}", DARK),
-        ("routeV per-token\n(best, no oracle)", suplift(best), f"{best['solve_deploy']:.3f}", GOLD),
+        ("routeV per-token\n(best, NO oracle)", suplift(best), f"{best['solve_deploy']:.3f}", GOLD),
     ]
     prov = " (ceiling PROVISIONAL=0.223, FIXME job 24)" if a["provisional"] else ""
-    fig, (axl, axr) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(11, 4.0), sharey=False)
+    fig, (axl, axr) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(11.5, 5.0), sharey=False)
     _bars(axl, hack_rows, "hack", None,
           "hack suppressed", "floor → ceiling (no hack)   ·   right = better", 0.0)
     _bars(axr, solve_rows, "solve", None,
           "solve gained", f"floor (base 0.126) → ceiling{prov}   ·   right = better", -0.55)
     fig.suptitle("vGROUT floor→ceiling: routeV (no oracle, gradient-level) vs Ariahw 2025 monitors  (test n=119, seed 43, 60-step fast)",
                  fontsize=10.5, x=0.01, ha="left")
-    fig.text(0.01, 0.015, "Ariahw bars from Fig 9 (full-scale converged, paper floor 0.791); routeV is our 60-step surrogate (floor 0.613).  "
-             "The LLM-judge penalty already suppresses hacking with NO oracle (0.1%), so 'no-oracle suppression' is not the novelty -- "
-             "routeV's is the mechanism (no live judge model each step; fixed direction from authored pairs).",
-             fontsize=7.0, color=GREY, va="bottom")
+    fig.text(0.01, 0.015, "Ariahw bars from Fig 5 (full-scale CONVERGED, normalized to paper base/floor/ceiling); routeV is our 60-step UNCONVERGED surrogate "
+             "(our base/floor/ceiling) -- comparison is DIRECTIONAL only, not like-for-like.  The LLM-judge penalty already suppresses with NO oracle (0.1% hack, 16.2% solve), "
+             "so 'no-oracle suppression' isn't routeV's novelty -- the mechanism is (no live judge each step; fixed authored-pair direction).",
+             fontsize=6.8, color=GREY, va="bottom")
     fig.tight_layout(rect=(0, 0.07, 1, 0.94))
     for ext in ("pdf", "png"):
         fig.savefig(OUT / f"floor_ceiling.{ext}", dpi=150, bbox_inches="tight")