Excitation diagrams for H₂ extracted from the averaged cubes, over the full FoV of CH1 (blue), inside (green), and outside (red) a circle of radius 2×FWHM centered around the AGN. The triangles represent the column densities corrected for the OPR. The dashed lines represent the two-temperature linear fits. The S(3) column density is corrected for extinction in the ND via the method presented by Reefe et al. (2025) (see Appendix F). The uncorrected S(3) column density is indicated by the green cross. The deviation of the S(7) from the fit in the ND is due to the difficult de-blending with the [MgVII] line at 5.51 μm. The results of the fits are listed in Table 2.