As the models ran, patterns unfolded that no metric had predicted: a lattice of improbable connections between stray signals — a child’s laugh on a public feed, a rustle of rain in an old recording, a line of code that had been commented out as an afterthought. Each piece was tiny, marginalia in a system built to optimize. Together they composed a topology of attention Miu had been chasing: not a perfect solution, but a place where the incomplete could be exquisite.