Zeaba THE ZEABA MODEL

V4: The Trigger Everyone Overvalues

"It's not what they said. It's what it unlocked."

What You'll Learn

This page explains V4 — the specific trigger or stimulus that enters your system. You'll understand why V4 is actually the least important variable (despite being the one everyone focuses on), and why what matters isn't the trigger itself but which memory circuit it unlocks.

What Is V4?

V4 is the specific stimulus, trigger, or content that enters the system at any given moment. A sentence. An image. A smell. A touch. A memory.

Why V4 Is (Usually) the Least Important Variable

This is counterintuitive, and it's where the Zeaba Model diverges from most therapeutic approaches:

Traditional therapy asks: "What happened to you?" (V4)
The Zeaba Model asks: "What program did it activate?" (V1) "In what state?" (V2) "In what context?" (V3) "With what level of awareness?" (V5)

Example

Someone says "You're just like your father." (V4)

Person A

Has a positive V1 engram of their father (CTZ +60). V2 is ventral vagal.

Response: warmth, gratitude.

Person B

Has a traumatic V1 engram of their father (CTZ -80). V2 is already sympathetic.

Response: rage, dissociation.

Same V4. Completely different behavior. Because V4 is just the key — V1 is the lock.

When V4 DOES Matter

V4 becomes critical when:

  • It is paired with high Power Level relationships (PL5-6)
  • It arrives during depleted V2 states (when V5 is offline)
  • It matches a specific engram's activation pattern with precision
  • Repeated V4 exposure over ΔTime deepens attractor basins