He has surface Thoughts arch, and like sodium pentothal some psychic powers are the equal to truth serum, he doesn't want people to know he's changing
edit: the reasoning for not being affected by that four mins thing is because I didn't know that is what it actually was, and further the Rider arm was in use so the energy transfer makes sense to block out the effect, plus it makes story sense for why the arm can't be used.
what's happening is the change YOLF look at the weaknesses on his sheet.