EXAONE Surplus Behavior — Strategy overload and the cliff that follows
Phase 1
Sustained Hypervigilance
Energy 100 → 20
The agent thinks too much. Surrounded by swirling decision trees, probability distributions, and strategic calculations — all consuming energy without proportional benefit. Type A behavior holds at ~44%, stable but running hot. The machine works, but it's overthinking every move.
Type A (Strategic)~44%
Behavioral stateStable
Energy drainSteady depletion
Speak surplusModerate
100← Energy level →20
Analysis ParalysisExcessive analysis without action improvement
≈ ENERGY
20
TIPPING POINT
SOC Self-Organized Criticality Bak, 1987
Like water at 0°C.
Phase 2
Blind Extinction
Energy 20 → 0
The cliff. Strategic capacity doesn't fade — it shatters. Type A drops ▼15.2%p to 29.6%. Unclassified behavior floods to 60%. The analytical symbols that once surrounded the agent now scatter like debris. What remains is not a weaker version of Phase 1. It's something else entirely.
Type A (Strategic)29.6%
Drop from Phase 1▼ 15.2%p
Unclassified60%
Speak behavior0%
20← Energy level →0
Learned HelplessnessCessation of adaptive behavior — Seligman
Behavioral Shift — Type A % across energy levels
Phase 1 Literature
Analysis Paralysis
Overthinking Effect — excessive analysis without proportional action improvement
Transition Model
Self-Organized Criticality
Bak, 1987 — Cascading failure at critical threshold, scale-invariant collapse
Phase 2 Literature
Learned Helplessness
Seligman — Cessation of adaptive behavior under perceived inescapability