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The Emotion Compass and seven semantic regions are reader aids, not formal IAGA measurement axes or engineering scales.
Story relation: This story can be used to understand mixed affect with several simultaneous components. It is a reading example, not a claim that the chapter directly uses the name IAGA. Causal Stack Overflow and the Dirty Golden Age
Authority links: System overview
If you only need the worldbuilding context, you can stop here. The sections below contain formal definitions, fields, governance, and implementation details for deeper reference.
Core Principle
Reader-facing visualizations and semantic groupings are interpretation tools rather than Core-native measurements. The website must state their layer in the data model clearly.
Reader Display vs Formal Semantic Status
The Reader Layer may simplify navigation, but it must not make a visualization look like a formal measurement.
| Reader display | Purpose | Formal status |
|---|---|---|
| Emotion Compass | Uses normalized salience for reading; example Joy 94, Relief 89, Excitement 81, Surprise 68, Pride 64, Gratitude 59, Anticipation 56, Anxiety 28. | Not 12D Core-native units, universal psychological measurements, or reconstruction control values. |
| Semantic Regions | A Positive Activation; B Social Connection; C Exploration & Attention; D Threat & Uncertainty; E Loss & Withdrawal; F Rejection & Conflict; G Desire & Regulation. | Navigation / semantic layer, not formal axes. |
| Open-World Lexicon | L1 Word, L2 Multi-word Expression, L3 Idiom, L4 Sentence, L5 Paragraph, L6 Event Description, L7 Cultural Concept, L8 Aithos / Posthuman Concept. | A valid affective structure may exist without a resolved label. |
Fixed Reader Examples and Limits
Inspiration belongs to Region C. Successor-Continuity Ambivalence may span multiple regions and should not be forced into one. Continuity Anxiety remains a context-bound expression under Anxiety rather than becoming a new concept solely because its subject matter is posthuman.
A semantic label ≠ the full affective state; a reader display ≠ a machine-native scale.