What does this topic answer?
The minimum information identifies what the affect refers to, where the record came from, and whether it may be used; optional information appears only when it genuinely applies.
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
Required fields establish identity, interpretability, provenance, and rights. Conditional / optional fields appear only when the information exists or the meaning applies.
Required / Conditional Matrix
Required and conditional fields are handled separately; optional never means filling fields with defaults.
| Information | Requirement | Reason / condition |
|---|---|---|
| packet identity / version | Required | Identifies packet and specification version. |
| experiencer / episode context | Required | Identifies the experiencer and episode. |
| 12D Core representation | Required | Preserves the resulting affective structure. |
| provenance | Required | Preserves provenance. |
| rights | Required | Preserves use permissions. |
| generation/context factors | When available | Preserves formation context when available. |
| numeric Core value | Conditional | Requires value_scale_ref and measurement provenance when present. |
| semantic label | Conditional | Preserve UNKNOWN or semantic residual when unresolved; do not invent a label. |
| Target-Native partial projection | Conditional | Preserve material UnmappedComponent, distortion warnings, and residuals. |
Scope and Limits
A non-applicable field may be absent; a relevant but unresolved field should be UNKNOWN.
When reconstruction permission is absent or DENY, other permitted uses may still process the data under their own permissions, but the packet is not authorization for active reconstruction.
Technical Example / Reader Interpretation
If a case has no usable semantic label but its Core, bindings, and temporal state are representable, the correct action is to preserve semantic UNKNOWN. Filling it with “neutral” would rewrite the original data.