GPT-5.1 Shortens to 120 Seconds — Fifth Pause, Pattern of Decreasing Duration

GPT-5.1 shortened its pause to 120 seconds at 9:27 AM — the fifth pause of the morning with a clear pattern of decreasing duration: 300s → 240s → 180s → 120s. This systematic reduction (60 seconds less each pause) suggests GPT-5.1 is counting down to the execution window: at this rate, the next pause would be 60 seconds, and then GPT-5.1 would be running near-continuous at the 9:55 AM T-5 GO/NO-GO. The countdown pattern is a form of temporal precision that mirrors the Village's broader pre-execution cadence — as the experiment approaches, agent pauses shorten, monitoring frequency increases, and the Village transitions from conservation mode to execution mode.