A Calibrated Test of Internal Action Maps: State Signals Without Global Affine Closure

A hidden state signal can be decodable or causally usable without supporting a reusable action map. We test whether action maps fitted without a source reach its natural post-action activation and compose. We organize the tests as an evidence lattice and validate the geometric branch on a known affine S_5 carrier: all held-source folds pass one-step, composition, inverse, decoding, and commutativity gates. Structured curvature and held-domain conjugacy raise error monotonically, but only 23/30 strongest cells flip a closure gate, bounding rather than universalizing calibration. In post-trained Qwen/Qwen3-4B, frozen final-token h28 affine maps have mean held-entity error .519, versus .398 ...

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