This report investigates the Zero-Signal Strategy, a sophisticated behavioral protocol utilized by subjects to navigate high-stakes social scenarios. Drawing from the ISCO resort study, specifically the Alex-Jamie market interaction, we analyze how the cognitive system deploys Layer 2 Processing to amplify an initial Attentional Freeze into a comprehensive Risk Elimination Protocol. The subject, driven by a Compulsion for Non-Error, actively suppresses all motor output to prevent the "leakage" of sub-optimal cues. This state of Guaranteed Perfection serves as a Value Preservation Shield, ensuring that the subject remains unblemished by clumsiness or eagerness, effectively allowing the Ideal Self to remain intact—albeit theoretical—until a Flawless Opening presents itself.