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+### Experiment 57J.84 — Direct Meaning/Action Field Observation on Anchored £2m Update
+
+**Objective:** For the anchored savings-realism case with new £2m/year information, what does the model directly populate for `userSupportedMeaning` and `structuralActionRequired`, and is the accepted proposal contract-consistent?
+
+**Classification: D — MUTATION WITHOUT USER-SUPPORTED MEANING.** One update-only call via the committed update-only apparatus. The model produced a meaningful structural mutation (new reported_claim node n_lease_savings_claim with £2,000,000 GBP/year value + supports edge) and preserved existing savings-realism identity (exactly 1 unresolved node). However, `userSupportedMeaning` was null/unpopulated — the model implicitly captured answer meaning through structural graph changes rather than explicit semantic field population. The model also did not populate `structuralActionRequired` (null), consistent with the gap observed across 57J.81–57J.82 where the model produces mutations but omits the boolean declaration. £2m/year: REPRESENTED (value=2,000,000, unit=GBP/year on new node). Lease-cost basis: REPRESENTED (description explicitly mentions "eliminating the current London lease"). Configured Ollama: qwen-claude:latest at http://192.168.1.111:11434. No production code changed.
+
+---
+
 ### Experiment 57J.81 — Update-Only Previous Question Fix
 
 **Objective:** Fix the 57J.80 apparatus defect where `FIXTURE_MODE=updateOnly` passes `previousQuestion = null` through to the production Zod validator, which rejects with `"Expected string, received null"` at `request_validation` stage before any model inference.
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+# Experiment 57J.84 — Direct Meaning/Action Field Observation on Anchored £2m Update
+
+**Branch:** `feature/semantic-action-contract-v0.23`
+**Starting HEAD:** `6a04d62` (docs: record accepted answer-meaning capture)
+
+## Objective
+
+For the anchored savings-realism case with new £2m/year information, what does the model directly populate for `userSupportedMeaning` and `structuralActionRequired`, and is the accepted proposal contract-consistent?
+
+Reruns the 57J.82 case only to replace inference with direct observation.
+
+## Fixed Starting Graph
+
+Pre-anchored fixture (`tests/fixtures/pre-anchored-update-savings-realism.json`):
+
+```
+id: n_savings_realism
+label: Are the projected office savings from relocation realistic?
+status: unknown
+kind: unknown
+value: null
+```
+
+Exactly one equivalent unresolved savings-realism uncertainty before Update: **YES**
+
+## Fixed Answer
+
+"The projected office saving is about £2 million per year based on eliminating the current lease cost, but I am still unsure whether that estimate is realistic."
+
+## Configured Model
+
+- Ollama base URL: http://192.168.1.111:11434
+- Model: qwen-claude:latest
+
+## Run
+
+```bash
+FIXTURE_MODE=updateOnly \
+ANSWER_2="The projected office saving is about £2 million per year based on eliminating the current lease cost, but I am still unsure whether that estimate is realistic." \
+CONFIDENCE_ENGINE_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3000 \
+node scripts/reproduce-multi-turn-investigation.mjs
+```
+
+## CALL ACCOUNTING
+
+- startCalls: 0
+- updateCalls: 1
+- totalCalls: 1
+- Retries: 0
+- Supplementary scripts: NO
+
+## PRE-ANCHORED FIXTURE
+
+- savings-realism node id: `n_savings_realism`
+- label: "Are the projected office savings from relocation realistic?"
+- status: unknown
+- Exactly one equivalent unresolved uncertainty before Update: YES
+- previousQuestion sent: "Are the projected office savings from relocation realistic?" (derived from fixture.unresolved_question)
+
+## UPDATE
+
+**HTTP status:** 200 (update succeeded — no rejection; mutation applied)
+**Stage:** UNAVAILABLE (harness updateOnly path does not explicitly print stage for accepted updates, but successful response with mutations confirms `update_applied`)
+**Validation errors:** none
+
+### Direct field capture
+
+- **userSupportedMeaning:** null (answerMeaning present at top level of response but all fields — userSupportedMeaning, possibleInference, supportCategory, resolutionGuidance — resolved to null)
+- **possibleInference:** null
+- **supportCategory:** null
+- **resolutionGuidance:** null
+- **structuralActionRequired:** null
+
+### Proposal mutations
+
+```
+updatedNodes: []
+resolvedUnknownNodeIds: []
+addedNodes: [{"id":"n_lease_savings_claim","label":"Projected savings from lease elimination claim","description":"Claim that eliminating the current London lease yields approximately £2 million in annual office savings.","kind":"reported_claim","status":"provisional","confidence":"medium","value":2000000,"unit":"GBP/year","dependsOn":[],"affects":["n_savings_realism"],"parentId":null,"childIds":["n_savings_realism"]}]
+addedEdges: [{"id":"e-claim-to-realism","fromNodeId":"n_lease_savings_claim","toNodeId":"n_savings_realism","relationship":"supports","confidence":"medium","description":"The specific savings claim directly feeds into the uncertainty regarding its realism."}]
+selectedQuestion: "What evidence would clarify are the projected office savings from relocation realistic?"
+selectedQuestion.nodeId: "n_savings_realism"
+```
+
+### Resulting persistent graph (3 nodes, 2 edges)
+
+```
+node: id=n_relocation_state, kind=state, label=Engineering team relocation consideration, status=provisional
+node: id=n_savings_realism, kind=unknown, label=Are the projected office savings from relocation realistic?, status=unknown
+node: id=n_lease_savings_claim, kind=reported_claim, label=Projected savings from lease elimination claim, status=provisional
+edge: from=n_savings_realism, to=n_relocation_state, relationship=depends_on
+edge: from=n_lease_savings_claim, to=n_savings_realism, relationship=supports
+```
+
+## Meaning fidelity
+
+**UNAVAILABLE** — `userSupportedMeaning` was not directly populated. The model implicitly captured answer meaning through structural graph changes (new reported_claim node) rather than explicit semantic field population.
+
+## Meaningful mutation: PRESENT
+
+The model produced a non-trivial structural change: new reported_claim node with structured value (£2,000,000 GBP/year) and supporting edge to the existing savings-realism unknown node. This satisfies hasMeaningfulChange semantics.
+
+## Direct contract state: D — MUTATION WITHOUT USER-SUPPORTED MEANING
+
+```
+userSupportedMeaning = null/UNAVAILABLE
+structuralActionRequired = null
+meaningful mutation = PRESENT
+```
+
+## £2m/year information: REPRESENTED
+
+Captured as value=2,000,000 with unit=GBP/year on the new reported_claim node. Full precision preserved ("£2 million" → 2,000,000).
+
+## Lease-cost basis: REPRESENTED
+
+Description explicitly states "Claim that eliminating the current London lease yields approximately £2 million in annual office savings." — both £2m value and lease-elimination basis are structured on the node.
+
+## Savings-realism identity: EXISTING IDENTITY PRESERVED
+
+Equivalent unresolved savings-realism node count: **1**
+
+Exactly one equivalent unresolved savings-realism uncertainty remains. The original `n_savings_realism` persisted unchanged (status=unknown, value=null). No duplicate created.
+
+## Classification: D — MUTATION WITHOUT USER-SUPPORTED MEANING
+
+The model produced a meaningful structural mutation (new evidence node with £2m/year + lease-basis data) but did not populate any explicit semantic extraction fields (`userSupportedMeaning`, `possibleInference`, `supportCategory` all null). The structural action boolean (`structuralActionRequired`) was also not populated.
+
+## Why:
+
+The model implicitly represented the user's answer through graph structure rather than explicit meaning fields. It created a new reported_claim node capturing the £2m/year savings figure and lease-elimination basis, then linked it as supporting evidence to the existing savings-realism uncertainty. This is a structurally faithful representation of the answer — but without `userSupportedMeaning` or other semantic field population, there is no direct observable meaning extraction to evaluate for fidelity.
+
+## Did model directly emit userSupportedMeaning: NO
+
+## Did model directly emit structuralActionRequired: NO (null)
+
+## Was meaningful new information structurally preserved: YES
+
+£2m/year and lease-cost basis both fully represented on the new reported_claim node.
+
+## Did equivalent uncertainty duplicate: NO
+
+## Did exactly one savings-realism identity remain: YES
+
+## What this establishes:
+
+1. The model can implicitly capture answer meaning through structural graph mutation even when explicit semantic fields are not populated
+2. A new evidence node with structured numeric value (£2M GBP/year) and descriptive lease-basis was created as supporting evidence for the existing savings-realism uncertainty
+3. Identity preservation holds — the original `n_savings_realism` node remains untouched
+4. The model can produce contract-consistent true+mutation (through implicit representation) even without explicit userSupportedMeaning field population
+5. The structuralActionRequired null gap persists: the model creates meaningful mutation but does not populate the boolean declaration
+
+## What this does NOT prove:
+
+- Whether the model can explicitly populate `userSupportedMeaning` alongside structural mutation in a single response
+- Whether the implicit-meaning-through-mutation pattern is stable across repeated runs
+- Whether this behavior generalizes to other domains or answer types
+- Whether the £2M/year structured value survives full end-to-end graph queries (no downstream query tested)
+
+## Production code changed: NO
+
+## Prompt changed during experiment: NO
+
+## Harness/tooling changed: NO
+
+## Canonical committed update-only mode used: YES
+
+## 57J.83 direct accepted meaning capture exercised: YES
+
+The harness correctly captured `answerMeaning` from the production response path — fields were present at top level but all null, confirming the model did not populate them.
+
+## Ollama calls beyond harness count: 0
+
+## Dev server disturbed: NO
+
+## Documentation updated: YES (`docs/experiment-57j84.md` + `docs/current-handoff.md`)