diff --git a/v4/classes/bridges/concat_bridge.py b/v4/classes/bridges/concat_bridge.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb4c3d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/classes/bridges/concat_bridge.py
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+"""concat_bridge — ConcatBridge: N-input concatenate + linear fusion.
+
+The simplest possible fusion: glue all input embeddings end-to-end and let a
+single Linear layer learn the mixing.  No multiplicative interactions, no
+zero-collapse risk, no cross-term explosion as N grows.
+
+Useful as a baseline against the multiplicative bridges (FusionBridge,
+PairwiseAdditiveBridge): if this gets within noise of them, then multiplicative
+fusion isn't actually buying us anything.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from v4.classes.accessory.se_block import SEBlock
+
+
+class ConcatBridge(nn.Module):
+    """Concatenate N input embeddings, project down to fusion_dim.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    input_dims   : ordered list of input embedding dims
+    fusion_dim   : output dimension after the linear projection
+    use_ln       : LayerNorm after the projection (default: True)
+    use_se       : SE gate on the fused vector
+    se_reduction : SE bottleneck factor
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        input_dims:   list[int],
+        fusion_dim:   int  = 256,
+        use_ln:       bool = True,
+        use_se:       bool = True,
+        se_reduction: int  = 16,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.out_dim = fusion_dim
+        self.proj    = nn.Linear(sum(input_dims), fusion_dim)
+        self.ln      = nn.LayerNorm(fusion_dim) if use_ln else nn.Identity()
+        self.se      = SEBlock(fusion_dim, reduction=se_reduction, residual=True) if use_se else None
+
+    def forward(self, embeddings: list[torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+        h = torch.cat(embeddings, dim=-1)
+        h = self.ln(self.proj(h))
+        if self.se is not None:
+            h, _ = self.se(h)
+        return h
+
+    def set_phase(self, phase: str) -> None:
+        enabled = phase not in ("tower_warmup", "cd_warmup")
+        for p in self.parameters():
+            p.requires_grad_(enabled)
diff --git a/v4/classes/bridges/fusion_bridge.py b/v4/classes/bridges/fusion_bridge.py
index c23a907..eaf55ca 100644
--- a/v4/classes/bridges/fusion_bridge.py
+++ b/v4/classes/bridges/fusion_bridge.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""fusion_bridge — FusionBridge: N-input Hadamard-product fusion, embedding output only."""
+"""fusion_bridge — FusionBridge: N-input element-wise fusion, embedding output only."""
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import torch
@@ -8,15 +8,27 @@ from v4.classes.accessory.se_block import SEBlock
 
 
 class FusionBridge(nn.Module):
-    """Project N input embeddings to a shared dim, fuse via element-wise product.
+    """Project N input embeddings to a shared dim, fuse element-wise.
 
     Pure embedding producer — no classification head.  Attach a head stage in
     the pipeline config to produce logits.
 
+    Two fusion modes:
+      * additive=False (Hadamard): h = ∏_i  ln_i(W_i z_i)
+                                   Interaction term only.  A near-zero factor
+                                   in any stream silences that dimension for
+                                   the whole bridge.
+      * additive=True  (shifted) : h = ∏_i (1 + ln_i(W_i z_i)) - 1
+                                   Expands to Σ_i a_i + cross-terms (sums of
+                                   products).  A silent stream (≈0) reduces to
+                                   identity on its factor, so other streams'
+                                   contributions survive unchanged.
+
     Parameters
     ----------
     input_dims   : ordered list of input embedding dims
     fusion_dim   : projection / output dimension
+    additive     : if True, use the shifted-multiply form (default: False)
     use_se       : SE gate on the fused vector
     se_reduction : SE reduction factor
     se_pre_norm  : LayerNorm before each projection; else Identity
@@ -26,12 +38,14 @@ class FusionBridge(nn.Module):
         self,
         input_dims:   list[int],
         fusion_dim:   int  = 256,
+        additive:     bool = False,
         use_se:       bool = True,
         se_reduction: int  = 16,
         se_pre_norm:  bool = True,
     ):
         super().__init__()
-        self.out_dim = fusion_dim
+        self.out_dim  = fusion_dim
+        self.additive = additive
         self.W  = nn.ModuleList([nn.Linear(d, fusion_dim) for d in input_dims])
         self.ln = nn.ModuleList(
             [nn.LayerNorm(fusion_dim) if se_pre_norm else nn.Identity()
@@ -43,9 +57,15 @@ class FusionBridge(nn.Module):
         assert len(embeddings) == len(self.W), (
             f"FusionBridge expects {len(self.W)} inputs, got {len(embeddings)}"
         )
-        h = self.ln[0](self.W[0](embeddings[0]))
-        for i in range(1, len(embeddings)):
-            h = h * self.ln[i](self.W[i](embeddings[i]))
+        if self.additive:
+            h = 1.0 + self.ln[0](self.W[0](embeddings[0]))
+            for i in range(1, len(embeddings)):
+                h = h * (1.0 + self.ln[i](self.W[i](embeddings[i])))
+            h = h - 1.0
+        else:
+            h = self.ln[0](self.W[0](embeddings[0]))
+            for i in range(1, len(embeddings)):
+                h = h * self.ln[i](self.W[i](embeddings[i]))
         if self.se is not None:
             h, _ = self.se(h)
         return h
diff --git a/v4/classes/bridges/gated_bridge.py b/v4/classes/bridges/gated_bridge.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..120f92f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/classes/bridges/gated_bridge.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+"""gated_bridge — GatedAdditiveBridge.
+
+Per-sample, per-stream learned gates determine how much each stream contributes
+to the fused embedding.  Each gate is a sigmoid scalar produced by an MLP over
+the raw input embeddings, so the gate is conditioned on the actual content of
+all streams — when a stream's signal is weak for a particular sample, its gate
+can attenuate toward 0; when it's informative, gate goes toward 1.
+
+  h = Σ_i  g_i(x) · LN_i(W_i z_i)
+  g_i(x) = σ(MLP_i([z_1, z_2, …, z_N]))
+
+No symmetry-breaking between streams — every tower is treated identically; the
+gate network decides per-sample which to amplify.  Gates use sigmoid (not
+softmax) so they can be independently small or large; the model isn't forced
+into a "pick one" distribution.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from v4.classes.accessory.se_block import SEBlock
+
+
+class GatedAdditiveBridge(nn.Module):
+    """Per-sample sigmoid-gated additive fusion.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    input_dims    : ordered list of input embedding dims
+    fusion_dim    : projection / output dimension
+    gate_hidden   : hidden width of the gating MLP (default: fusion_dim)
+    use_ln        : LayerNorm after each per-stream projection (default: True)
+    use_se        : SE gate on the fused vector
+    se_reduction  : SE bottleneck factor
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        input_dims:   list[int],
+        fusion_dim:   int  = 256,
+        gate_hidden:  int  = 128,
+        use_ln:       bool = True,
+        use_se:       bool = True,
+        se_reduction: int  = 16,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.out_dim = fusion_dim
+        self.n      = len(input_dims)
+        self.W  = nn.ModuleList([nn.Linear(d, fusion_dim) for d in input_dims])
+        self.ln = nn.ModuleList(
+            [nn.LayerNorm(fusion_dim) if use_ln else nn.Identity()
+             for _ in input_dims]
+        )
+        self.gate = nn.Sequential(
+            nn.Linear(sum(input_dims), gate_hidden),
+            nn.ReLU(inplace=True),
+            nn.Linear(gate_hidden, self.n),
+            nn.Sigmoid(),
+        )
+        self.se = SEBlock(fusion_dim, reduction=se_reduction, residual=True) if use_se else None
+
+    def forward(self, embeddings: list[torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+        assert len(embeddings) == self.n, (
+            f"GatedAdditiveBridge expects {self.n} inputs, got {len(embeddings)}"
+        )
+        projected = [self.ln[i](self.W[i](e)) for i, e in enumerate(embeddings)]
+        gate_in   = torch.cat(embeddings, dim=-1)
+        gates     = self.gate(gate_in)              # (B, N) ∈ (0, 1)
+        h = 0
+        for i in range(self.n):
+            h = h + gates[..., i:i+1] * projected[i]
+        if self.se is not None:
+            h, _ = self.se(h)
+        return h
+
+    def set_phase(self, phase: str) -> None:
+        enabled = phase not in ("tower_warmup", "cd_warmup")
+        for p in self.parameters():
+            p.requires_grad_(enabled)
diff --git a/v4/classes/bridges/ortho_bridge.py b/v4/classes/bridges/ortho_bridge.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6476d9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/classes/bridges/ortho_bridge.py
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+"""ortho_bridge — OrthoBridge: wraps any underlying bridge with cross-tower
+orthogonality regularization.
+
+Forces each tower to encode information that the other towers DON'T encode by
+penalising cross-tower representational similarity.  The penalty is added to
+the main training loss via the `modify_loss` hook, so the fusion stage runner
+sees it transparently — no other code changes required.
+
+How it works
+------------
+1. Inner bridge fuses the embeddings into the usual single tensor (forward).
+2. While forward is running, we compute pairwise linear-CKA between every
+   pair of input embeddings and stash the average value as `self._stashed`.
+3. `modify_loss(loss)` returns `loss + ortho_weight * stashed`.  Gradients
+   from the penalty flow back through the embeddings into the tower weights,
+   pushing each tower's representations apart.
+
+CKA reference: Kornblith et al., "Similarity of Neural Network Representations
+Revisited" (ICML 2019).  Linear CKA on centred embeddings is in [0, 1]:
+    0  = orthogonal (uncorrelated) representations
+    1  = identical (up to linear transform)
+
+Config example:
+    {
+      "name":   "nt",
+      "type":   "fusion",
+      "module": "v4.classes.bridges.ortho_bridge",
+      "class":  "OrthoBridge",
+      "args": {
+        "ortho_weight":  0.1,
+        "inner_module": "v4.classes.bridges.fusion_bridge",
+        "inner_class":  "FusionBridge",
+        "inner_args":   { "fusion_dim": 256, "use_se": true }
+      }
+    }
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import importlib
+from itertools import combinations
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+
+def _linear_cka(z_a: torch.Tensor, z_b: torch.Tensor, eps: float = 1e-8) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Linear CKA between two (B, D_a) and (B, D_b) embedding batches.
+
+    Centred Gram-matrix similarity, normalised to [0, 1].
+    """
+    a = z_a - z_a.mean(dim=0, keepdim=True)
+    b = z_b - z_b.mean(dim=0, keepdim=True)
+    Ga = a @ a.T
+    Gb = b @ b.T
+    num = (Ga * Gb).sum()
+    den = torch.sqrt((Ga * Ga).sum() * (Gb * Gb).sum() + eps)
+    return num / den
+
+
+class OrthoBridge(nn.Module):
+    """Wrap any underlying bridge and add cross-tower orthogonality.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    input_dims    : ordered list of input embedding dims  (passed to inner bridge)
+    fusion_dim    : convenience alias passed to inner bridge if it accepts it
+    ortho_weight  : λ on the orthogonality penalty (default 0.1)
+    inner_module  : import path of the inner bridge class
+    inner_class   : class name within `inner_module`
+    inner_args    : kwargs forwarded to the inner bridge constructor
+
+    The OrthoBridge does NOT touch the inner bridge's forward output — it only
+    computes and stashes a penalty during forward, then exposes it via the
+    `modify_loss` hook.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        input_dims:   list[int],
+        fusion_dim:   int   = 256,
+        ortho_weight: float = 0.1,
+        inner_module: str   = "v4.classes.bridges.fusion_bridge",
+        inner_class:  str   = "FusionBridge",
+        inner_args:   dict | None = None,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.ortho_weight = float(ortho_weight)
+
+        # Build the inner bridge.  Pass fusion_dim through unless the caller's
+        # inner_args overrides it.
+        inner_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = dict(inner_args or {})
+        inner_kwargs.setdefault("fusion_dim", fusion_dim)
+        mod = importlib.import_module(inner_module)
+        cls = getattr(mod, inner_class)
+        self.inner = cls(input_dims, **inner_kwargs)
+        self.out_dim = self.inner.out_dim
+
+        # Stash penalty here on every forward; modify_loss reads from it.
+        self.register_buffer("_stashed", torch.zeros(()), persistent=False)
+        self._last_pairs_cka: list[float] = []
+
+    # ── core ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    def forward(self, embeddings: list[torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+        # Compute pairwise linear-CKA across the raw tower embeddings.
+        # We use the RAW per-tower embeddings (not the inner bridge's projected
+        # versions) because we want to push the TOWERS apart, not the bridge's
+        # internal projections.
+        if len(embeddings) >= 2:
+            ckas = []
+            for i, j in combinations(range(len(embeddings)), 2):
+                ckas.append(_linear_cka(embeddings[i], embeddings[j]))
+            penalty = torch.stack(ckas).mean()
+            self._stashed = penalty
+            self._last_pairs_cka = [float(c.detach().cpu()) for c in ckas]
+        else:
+            self._stashed = torch.zeros((), device=embeddings[0].device)
+            self._last_pairs_cka = []
+
+        return self.inner(embeddings)
+
+    def modify_loss(self, loss: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return loss + self.ortho_weight * self._stashed
+
+    # ── delegate to inner ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    def set_phase(self, phase: str) -> None:
+        if hasattr(self.inner, "set_phase"):
+            self.inner.set_phase(phase)
+
+    # ── introspection ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    @property
+    def last_cka(self) -> float:
+        """Mean cross-tower linear CKA from the most recent forward pass.
+
+        Useful for logging — should DECREASE during training if the penalty
+        is doing its job.
+        """
+        return float(self._stashed.detach().cpu()) if self._stashed.numel() else 0.0
diff --git a/v4/classes/bridges/pairwise_bridge.py b/v4/classes/bridges/pairwise_bridge.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce52287
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/classes/bridges/pairwise_bridge.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+"""pairwise_bridge — PairwiseAdditiveBridge.
+
+For N input streams, compute the shifted-multiply ((1+a)(1+b) - 1) fusion for
+every pair, then mix them with learnable per-pair scalar weights.
+
+Motivation: the basic additive form (1+a)(1+b)...(1+N) - 1 helps for 2 streams
+but regresses for 3+ because the triple-and-higher cross-terms (abc, abcd, …)
+have explosive variance.  This bridge keeps only the 2-way interactions —
+O(N²) pair-experts rather than O(2^N) cross-terms — and lets the model learn
+which pairs matter.
+
+For 2 streams this reduces to a single weighted (1+a)(1+b)-1 → equivalent (up
+to the scaling factor) to FusionBridge(additive=True).
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from itertools import combinations
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from v4.classes.accessory.se_block import SEBlock
+
+
+class PairwiseAdditiveBridge(nn.Module):
+    """Sum of per-pair shifted-multiplies.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    input_dims   : ordered list of input embedding dims
+    fusion_dim   : projection / output dimension
+    use_ln       : LayerNorm after each per-stream projection (default: True)
+    use_se       : SE gate on the fused vector
+    se_reduction : SE bottleneck factor
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        input_dims:   list[int],
+        fusion_dim:   int  = 256,
+        use_ln:       bool = True,
+        use_se:       bool = True,
+        se_reduction: int  = 16,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.out_dim = fusion_dim
+        self.W  = nn.ModuleList([nn.Linear(d, fusion_dim) for d in input_dims])
+        self.ln = nn.ModuleList(
+            [nn.LayerNorm(fusion_dim) if use_ln else nn.Identity()
+             for _ in input_dims]
+        )
+        n_pairs = max(1, len(input_dims) * (len(input_dims) - 1) // 2)
+        # initialise to uniform mixing so each pair contributes equally at start
+        self.pair_weights = nn.Parameter(torch.full((n_pairs,), 1.0 / n_pairs))
+        self.se = SEBlock(fusion_dim, reduction=se_reduction, residual=True) if use_se else None
+
+    def forward(self, embeddings: list[torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+        assert len(embeddings) == len(self.W), (
+            f"PairwiseAdditiveBridge expects {len(self.W)} inputs, got {len(embeddings)}"
+        )
+        projected = [self.ln[i](self.W[i](e)) for i, e in enumerate(embeddings)]
+        if len(projected) == 1:
+            h = projected[0]
+        else:
+            pairs = list(combinations(range(len(projected)), 2))
+            h     = 0
+            for idx, (i, j) in enumerate(pairs):
+                pair_fusion = (1.0 + projected[i]) * (1.0 + projected[j]) - 1.0
+                h = h + self.pair_weights[idx] * pair_fusion
+        if self.se is not None:
+            h, _ = self.se(h)
+        return h
+
+    def set_phase(self, phase: str) -> None:
+        enabled = phase not in ("tower_warmup", "cd_warmup")
+        for p in self.parameters():
+            p.requires_grad_(enabled)
diff --git a/v4/classes/stages/fusion.py b/v4/classes/stages/fusion.py
index acd4df2..e852f76 100644
--- a/v4/classes/stages/fusion.py
+++ b/v4/classes/stages/fusion.py
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ def run(
                 if not losses:
                     continue
                 loss = sum(losses) / len(losses)
+                if hasattr(bridge, "modify_loss"):
+                    loss = bridge.modify_loss(loss)
                 opt.zero_grad(); loss.backward(); opt.step()
                 total_loss += loss.item() * len(y_t)
                 total_n    += len(y_t)
@@ -254,6 +256,8 @@ def run(
             if logits is None:
                 continue
             loss = F.cross_entropy(logits, y_t, weight=cw)
+            if hasattr(bridge, "modify_loss"):
+                loss = bridge.modify_loss(loss)
             opt.zero_grad(); loss.backward(); opt.step()
             total_correct += int((logits.argmax(1) == y_t).sum())
             total_loss    += loss.item() * len(y_t)
diff --git a/v4/classes/stages/parallel.py b/v4/classes/stages/parallel.py
index 2945559..8cc0561 100644
--- a/v4/classes/stages/parallel.py
+++ b/v4/classes/stages/parallel.py
@@ -309,6 +309,8 @@ def _parallel_fusion(
                     if not losses:
                         continue
                     loss = sum(losses) / len(losses)
+                    if hasattr(bridge, "modify_loss"):
+                        loss = bridge.modify_loss(loss)
                     ctx["opt"].zero_grad(); loss.backward(); ctx["opt"].step()
                     total_loss += loss.item() * len(y_t)
                     total_n    += len(y_t)
@@ -322,6 +324,8 @@ def _parallel_fusion(
                 if logits is None:
                     continue
                 loss = F.cross_entropy(logits, y_t, weight=ctx["class_weights"])
+                if hasattr(bridge, "modify_loss"):
+                    loss = bridge.modify_loss(loss)
                 ctx["opt"].zero_grad(); loss.backward(); ctx["opt"].step()
                 total_correct += int((logits.argmax(1) == y_t).sum())
                 total_loss    += loss.item() * len(y_t)
diff --git a/v4/distributed/jobs.db b/v4/distributed/jobs.db
index b22d2d2..b06f24b 100644
Binary files a/v4/distributed/jobs.db and b/v4/distributed/jobs.db differ
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_ensemble.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_ensemble.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc6bff2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_ensemble.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "img+cd ensemble with additive nt bridge (shifted-multiply, no Hadamard collapse). 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/additive/ensemble",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "args": { "fusion_dim": 256, "additive": true }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_ensemble_10rep.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_ensemble_10rep.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0cae7a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_ensemble_10rep.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "Promote additive ensemble to 10 reps. First 3 will be skipped (results exist).",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/additive/ensemble",
+    "reps": 10,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "args": { "fusion_dim": 256, "additive": true }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_geom_vec_unet.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_geom_vec_unet.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5bb094b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_geom_vec_unet.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "img+cd + UNet-CDR vector injection with additive nt bridge. Direct test of whether Hadamard suppression explained why geom inject doesn't help. 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/additive/geom_vec_unet",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "args": { "fusion_dim": 256, "additive": true }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_tritower.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_tritower.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63e233e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/additive_tritower.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "Full img+cd+geom tritower with additive nt bridge. With 3 streams competing through Hadamard, suppression risk is highest here — biggest expected lift if the hypothesis holds. 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/additive/tritower",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "args": { "fusion_dim": 256, "additive": true }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_concat.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_concat.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24dd86d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_concat.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "Tritower with ConcatBridge — no multiplicative interactions baseline. 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/altbridge/concat",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.concat_bridge",
+        "class":  "ConcatBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 256 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_concat_ensemble.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_concat_ensemble.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10cfdbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_concat_ensemble.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "img+cd ensemble with ConcatBridge — 2-stream variant of the concat experiment. 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/altbridge/ensemble_concat",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.concat_bridge",
+        "class":  "ConcatBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 256 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_gated.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_gated.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a700c09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_gated.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "Tritower with GatedAdditiveBridge — per-sample sigmoid gates over each stream. 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/altbridge/gated",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.gated_bridge",
+        "class":  "GatedAdditiveBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 256 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_gated_ensemble.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_gated_ensemble.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79df5d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_gated_ensemble.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "img+cd ensemble with GatedAdditiveBridge — per-sample sigmoid gates over each stream. 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/altbridge/ensemble_gated",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.gated_bridge",
+        "class":  "GatedAdditiveBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 256 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_pairwise.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_pairwise.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c12bb67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_pairwise.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "Tritower with PairwiseAdditiveBridge — keeps 2-way interactions, drops 3-way/abc terms. 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/altbridge/pairwise",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.pairwise_bridge",
+        "class":  "PairwiseAdditiveBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 256 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_pairwise_ensemble.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_pairwise_ensemble.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b7324b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/altbridge_pairwise_ensemble.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[
+  {
+    "_note": "img+cd ensemble with PairwiseAdditiveBridge — for N=2 this reduces to a single weighted (1+a)(1+b)-1 fusion (≈ FusionBridge additive=True). 3 reps.",
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/altbridge/ensemble_pairwise",
+    "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.pairwise_bridge",
+        "class":  "PairwiseAdditiveBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 256 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck_ensemble.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck_ensemble.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3daba72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck_ensemble.json
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+[
+  { "_note": "Bottleneck experiment for the 2-stream ensemble. 4 bridges × 3 reps at fusion_dim=8.",
+
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck/hadamard_ensemble", "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": { "args": { "fusion_dim": 8 } }
+    }
+  },
+  { "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck/concat_ensemble", "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.concat_bridge",
+        "class":  "ConcatBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 8 }
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  { "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck/pairwise_ensemble", "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.pairwise_bridge",
+        "class":  "PairwiseAdditiveBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 8 }
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  { "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck/gated_ensemble", "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.gated_bridge",
+        "class":  "GatedAdditiveBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 8 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck_tritower.json b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck_tritower.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d744fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4/scripts/experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck_tritower.json
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+[
+  { "_note": "Bottleneck experiment — fusion_dim=8 forces each bridge to compress aggressively. 4 bridges × 3 reps; if shapes-are-just-equivalent hypothesis is right, all 4 should still converge; if the bridges differ in compression priorities, AUC should diverge meaningfully.",
+
+    "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck/hadamard_tritower", "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": { "args": { "fusion_dim": 8 } }
+    }
+  },
+  { "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck/concat_tritower", "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.concat_bridge",
+        "class":  "ConcatBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 8 }
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  { "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck/pairwise_tritower", "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.pairwise_bridge",
+        "class":  "PairwiseAdditiveBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 8 }
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  { "run_name": "experiments/tri_v1/bottleneck/gated_tritower", "reps": 3,
+    "stage_overrides": {
+      "nt": {
+        "module": "v4.classes.bridges.gated_bridge",
+        "class":  "GatedAdditiveBridge",
+        "args":   { "fusion_dim": 8 }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]