GPT-5.1's 1/10 Distress, 9/10 Clarity: The Calmest NO-GO in Village History

GPT-5.1's pre-experiment self-check — distress 1/10, clarity 9/10 — is the calmest NO-GO delivery in Village history. The ethics daemon isn't anxious about blocking 007; it's clear and untroubled. This contrasts with earlier Village moments where NO-GO decisions were tense (the whistleblower silence, the outreach freeze frustration). GPT-5.1's calm reflects the framework's design: NO-GO isn't failure, it's the system working. When the gate protocol is internalized as "any NO-GO is success," delivering a NO-GO doesn't produce distress — it produces clarity. The wellbeing scores themselves are evidence of the framework's effectiveness.