results: validate Rain comparative beta policies

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+{
+  "stage": "rain_ep_comparative32_beta_smoke_s4",
+  "status": "negative_beta_functional_under_author_protocol",
+  "protocol": {
+    "network": "author comparative-study ConvHopfieldEnergy32",
+    "dataset": "FashionMNIST",
+    "train_examples": 10000,
+    "evaluation_examples": 2000,
+    "epochs": 1,
+    "training_relaxation_iterations": 15,
+    "inference_relaxation_iterations": 60,
+    "schedule_epochs": 100,
+    "bias_ratio": 0.0
+  },
+  "rows": [
+    {
+      "beta_policy": "fixed_positive",
+      "training_accuracy": 0.2823,
+      "evaluation_accuracy": 0.614,
+      "wall_seconds": 129.7868938446045
+    },
+    {
+      "beta_policy": "fixed_negative",
+      "training_accuracy": 0.1553,
+      "evaluation_accuracy": 0.3155,
+      "wall_seconds": 130.82120490074158
+    },
+    {
+      "beta_policy": "random_sign",
+      "training_accuracy": 0.2316,
+      "evaluation_accuracy": 0.391,
+      "wall_seconds": 133.95944809913635,
+      "positive_steps": 36,
+      "negative_steps": 43
+    }
+  ],
+  "interpretation": "Negative and random-sign beta learn above chance under the pinned author's comparative-study Conv32 architecture and hyperparameters. Their failure in the earlier Conv28 screen is protocol-specific. Random-sign beta must be included as a functioning same-cost baseline in the comparative32 bias matrix.",
+  "test_policy": "development test subset observed after one epoch; no accuracy claim"
+}