GMEOW Affect Module

• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/affect
• Tier: extension
• Group: extensions

What This Slice Covers

This slice owns 25 terms and contributes 0 mapping or projection rows. Use it when its terms match the native fact you want to preserve; use the linkage tables to see how those facts leave GMEOW for consumer vocabularies.

Dependencies

• gmeow:slices/kernel
• gmeow:slices/observations

Consumers

• The lbox principia importer (affect/aesthetic annotations) and the narrative narrative arc samples (sampleState draws on EmotionType by soft reference, never dependency). DELIBERATELY THIN (P15): growth requires a new consumer; the size budget and expansion bar are recorded in docs.md.

Local Map

Examples

Two Critics

• Source: slices/extensions/affect/examples/two-critics.ttl
• GMEOW terms: gmeow:Appraisal, gmeow:BookRelease, gmeow:Emotion, gmeow:Expression, gmeow:Person, gmeow:Work, gmeow:appraisalDimension, gmeow:appraisalOf, gmeow:appraisalQuality, gmeow:appraisalValue

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
# Worked example: the slice's whole doctrine in one scene — an
# emotion inhering in an agent (blended type, P9), and the same work
# appraised by two critics whose readings disagree and COEXIST: one finds
# sublimity (with high arousal), the other kitsch. No winner exists.

@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

ex:reader a gmeow:Person ; rdfs:label "the reader"@en .

ex:awe a gmeow:Emotion ;
    rdfs:label "the reader's awe"@en ;
    gmeow:emotionBearer ex:reader ;
    gmeow:emotionType gmeow:emotionFear , gmeow:emotionSurprise .

# The minimal WEMI spine the shapes demand (the gts example precedent).
ex:novelWork a gmeow:Work ; rdfs:label "the appraised work"@en .
ex:novelExpression a gmeow:Expression ;
    rdfs:label "the appraised text"@en ;
    gmeow:realizes ex:novelWork .
ex:novel a gmeow:BookRelease ;
    rdfs:label "the appraised release"@en ;
    gmeow:embodies ex:novelExpression .
ex:criticA a gmeow:Person ; rdfs:label "critic A"@en .
ex:criticB a gmeow:Person ; rdfs:label "critic B"@en .

ex:sublimeReading a gmeow:Appraisal ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:criticA ;
    gmeow:appraisalOf ex:novel ;
    gmeow:appraisalQuality gmeow:qualitySublimity .

ex:arousalReading a gmeow:Appraisal ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:criticA ;
    gmeow:appraisalOf ex:novel ;
    gmeow:appraisalDimension gmeow:dimensionArousal ;
    gmeow:appraisalValue 0.9 .

ex:kitschReading a gmeow:Appraisal ;
    gmeow:vantage ex:criticB ;
    gmeow:appraisalOf ex:novel ;
    gmeow:appraisalQuality gmeow:qualityKitsch .

Terms

Classes

Properties

Individuals

Guide

affect

Slice: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/slices/affect · tier: extension

Emotions and appraisals (the affect design) — the thinnest slice in the repo, by commitment.

The thinness budget

This slice ships exactly: Emotion ⊑ gufo:IntrinsicMode (the Desire/Intention pattern), an open Plutchik-seeded EmotionType vocabulary, and Appraisal ⊑ Observation with the PAD dimensions and an open AestheticQuality vocabulary. Nothing else. Principle 15 discipline: growth requires a new consumer, not modeling pleasure. The bar for expansion: a sensory-environment or narrative consumer demanding (e.g.) an emotion-tenure class, appraisal provenance structure, or a cognitive appraisal-theory layer. Until then, requests to grow this slice should be declined with a pointer here.

What deliberately does NOT exist

• No emotion tenure class — episodic scope rides validFrom/validUntil on the statement; promote to the StandpointTenure idiom only on consumer demand.
• No attributed-vs-self-report machinery — that's the vantage axis (self-report is top authority for the subject's own standpoint, the facetVantage precedent).
• No emotion or aesthetic hierarchies — open value vocabularies, contested by design (P9): traditions disagree about the inventory, and the disagreement is data.
• No hard rubrics dependency — appraisalValue is read against a rubric ScoreScale when loaded, plain decimals otherwise (soft reference).

Deferred to the compiler-arc window

MFOEM rows (linkage-only — BFO lineage), EmotionML vocabulary IRIs, WordNet-Affect closeMatch rows; the W3C EmotionML projection with declared loss (vantage collapses to EmotionML's single-annotator model — flagged loudly). Target list fixed in the alignment ledger.

Terms

gmeow:Emotion · gmeow:emotionBearer

An emotion is an intrinsic mode inhering in one agent (the Desire/Intention grounding) — episodic scope rides validFrom/validUntil on the statement, no tenure class. emotionBearer is functional and mandatory: an intrinsic mode has exactly one bearer.

gmeow:EmotionType · gmeow:emotionType

The kind of an emotion as an OPEN vocabulary seeded with Plutchik's primary eight (the EmotionML standard set) — registry-independent and contestable, never a tree (P9). emotionType is non-functional: blended emotions carry several types and classifications from different traditions coexist; at least one (SHACL).

gmeow:Appraisal · gmeow:appraisalOf

An affective or aesthetic reading of something, as an observation whose vantage is the appraiser — dimensional or qualitative (at least one of the two forms). Two critics disagreeing are two coexisting cells. appraisalOf (⊑ observedFeature) is functional: one appraisal, one subject.

gmeow:AppraisalDimension · gmeow:appraisalDimension · gmeow:appraisalValue

The dimensional form: an OPEN axis vocabulary seeded with the PAD triad — valence, arousal, dominance. appraisalDimension reads at most one axis per appraisal (a PAD triple is three Appraisals sharing a vantage); appraisalValue carries the reading on whatever scale the tradition declares (a rubric's ScoreScale when loaded, plain decimals otherwise — soft reference).

gmeow:AestheticQuality · gmeow:appraisalQuality

The qualitative form: an OPEN vocabulary seeded with elegance, sublimity, kitsch — no hierarchy exists or ever will (P9). appraisalQuality is non-functional: one cell may attribute several coexisting qualities.