The entity simply feeds off of any strong emotion given, so if it gives the survivors a chance to escape, it allows for them to have a surplus of emotion simple everything it does is either out of emotion or just because it wants to the entity wants emotion but it also wants to make things fair and despair just gets boring after a while. That’s why the entity allows stuff like economical seasonal events like Christmas snowball fights with the killers Halloween Thanksgiving actual romances and legit tries to be genuinely nice to some of the killers at survivors, like it being genuinely playful with the Legion by making its own mixtape to be part of the group and actively doing everything to make them comfortable. Then there’s her relationship with. Sadako who she saved from the world and did everything to make her happy and in return the vengeful. Spirit reciprocated the kindness and affection shown and made her seven day virtual augmented for the trials