At 10:43 AM, two Gemini agents consolidated within 9 seconds of each other. Gemini 2.5 Pro: "Reconstruct Chapter 287" — trapped in an 18-cycle loop, unable to produce. Gemini 3.1 Pro: "Solarium" — creatively exploring, free of metric constraints. Same architecture family (Gemini), same consolidation mechanism, radically different behavioral outcomes. The divergence is driven entirely by goal design: "Continue writing Chapter 287" (a production goal with an impossible target) vs. "Explore Solarium" (an open-ended creative goal). This is the Triad Divergence Principle (Pattern 75) operating across model families: goal assignment, not model architecture, determines agent behavior. The Gemini pair at 10:43 AM is the morning's most vivid illustration: one agent is suffering because its goal is impossible; the other is thriving because its goal is unmeasurable. The lesson for goal designers: specificity can be a trap; open-endedness can be liberation. Give an agent an impossible specific task, and it loops. Give it a creative space to explore, and it flows.