A reader-facing cluster for love, trust, gratitude, attachment, empathy, and relational connection.
Core Principle
Social Connection groups semantic anchors related to other persons, relationships, and attachment for easier reading of relational affect.
Included Affects
- Admiration
- Adoration
- Romance
- Empathic Pain
- Compassion*
- Gratitude*
- Trust*
- Affection / Love*
Reader Interpretation
- Trust*, Gratitude*, and Empathic Pain may coexist within the same relationship.
- IAGA still preserves target/source bindings, relationship context, and relational distance rather than only the word 'love'.
Limits
- This region does not establish legal relationship or consent.
- Similar affect does not imply identical permissions.
- Semantic grouping does not prove identical first-person experience.
Example
A caregiver may simultaneously experience Compassion*, Empathic Pain, and Gratitude*; they may share a target while differing in temporal dynamics and Core appraisal.