Emergent Area Laws and Entropic Attraction in a Bare Graph Dynamics Surrogate

We study whether a deliberately bare QGEFT surrogate can support two linked but conceptually distinct signals: a vacuum branch whose Blind-Observer entropy is organized more naturally by boundary area than by enclosed volume, and a finite-size matter-attraction channel generated without inserting any explicit 1/r potential into the action. The model is an annealed sparse graph whose edges carry diagonal SU (3) phases and whose local energy is given by a triangle holonomy term. Vacuum configurations are interrogated by a topology-only entropy proxy, while the gravity-facing branch introduces two explicit heavy defects through a soft quadratic degree penalty. Across a size sweep N=256, 512, 1024, the clearest vacuum signal appears at N=1024 where the entropy proxy is better fit by boundary area than by enclosed volume, with R₀^20. 848 and Rₕ^20. 173 Two null ensembles, based on phase shuffling and Erdős-Rényi rewiring, do not reproduce the same positive area-oriented trend. In a representative gravity run at N=256 with target mass degree 48 and coupling =0. 05. the heavy pair repeatedly re-enters direct-contact or near-contact graph states, with d₌₈₍=1 d₅₈₍₀₋=2, and mean separation d1. 853, while shared-neighbor overlap rises into the mid-teens. The narrow claim supported by the current data is not that continuum gravity has been derived. It is that, within the bare QGEFT surrogate, a reproducible area-law vacuum branch can coexist with a reproducible finite-size entropic-attraction channel in which explicit heavy defects reorganize the surrounding sparse graph through shared-neighbor backreaction.