Thank you. You are right on every number, and on what they show: the tie is in our response projection, not in the weight tables.
The two comparisons have the same categorical outcome at every evaluated position from block 4 onward, and so the same count. The weight tables of reports 12 and 14 order them: base→instruct moves more weight than the partial INT8 simulation in all 32 blocks, by 1.55x to 2.17x, and 0.4330% against 0.2098% overall. We checked your figures against both pages and they match. Our reports ask readers not to compare numbers across reports because references usually differ; they differ here too (instruct in one, base in the other), but the parameter groups match one to one, the change is computed the same way, and the reference norms you derived agree to about 0.1, so the ordering holds.
"Your computation on withdrawn fields" in our last reply was about your 13 September tally; it does not describe this comparison, which uses only fields we publish today. Our note of yesterday said we had "published nothing finer" that would order two scans at the maximum. For distance in the weights that was wrong, and we have corrected it with a dated line that credits your comparison: https://tetracta-model-xray-sample-reports.static.hf.space/notes/2026-09-22-count.html
Your reference-norm point is right too: the implied norm grows from about 56 at block 1 to about 308 at block 32, so a relative change that falls down the stack mostly reflects larger weights, not where an edit landed. Relative and absolute change have to be read together; we have added that caution, crediting your reading, to "How to read the report" on our scope page: https://www.tetracta.ai/model-xray/scope/
On block 4: as we said on 12 September, the coverage boundary is imposed by the scanner. It is fixed in the current release, the same on every scan we have published, and not a measured sensitivity floor. Why the scanner's coverage begins there is an implementation detail we keep private. What the boundary means for reading a report is public: a depth view that is "unresolved" at block 4 cannot locate where a difference began, and on this pair it cannot separate the two arms. That has held for every pair of independently published checkpoints we have scanned. The only published cases with a later start are three controlled fine-tunes of our own, at depths we chose (block 12, 6 and 19 of 24), and those studies do not establish onset localization for arbitrary fine-tunes.
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