{"id":1028,"date":"2025-07-14T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/?post_type=data_overview&#038;p=1028"},"modified":"2025-07-25T01:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:13:04","slug":"circumplex-12-emotions","status":"publish","type":"data_overview","link":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/?data_overview=circumplex-12-emotions","title":{"rendered":"Circumplex 12: Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-scatter\" data-src=\"visualisation\/23652739\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/23652739\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"scatter visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where did this Data come from?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intro\/About<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mapping the primary emotions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Including secondary emotions. The total is calculated by giving each primary emotion 5 points, each secondary emotion 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-section-3 is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Quandry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contented, the impact of only having 12 emotions, working in a framework. Even AI wanted to get out of it, suggestign other emotions. But we&#8217;re committed. What does using this constrained data view mean, and how does it impact what we see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contented: Working on the railroad, drift in what contented means, first came up in OWlring on The Railroad, but surfaces in multiple songs &#8211; Contented begins to mean &#8220;orderly&#8221; and &#8220;Accepting&#8221;. A fine line with &#8220;Resigned&#8221;, the line in WOTRR &#8211; &#8220;All the day long&#8221; &#8211; my interpretation of this song, vs the words, esp without history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contented also often comes up in sad songs, as nostolgia, or people recounting happier times (On the Banks of the Wabash)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Observations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>what emotions?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s the spread?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where are we all or nothng? Emotion is more uesd in Primary than Secondary an Vice Versa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DO NOT DROP<\/strong> the emotion field or leave it blank if a redirectable cue is present. Instead, assign the best-matched Circumplex emotion with a bridging rationale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ran into my own conflict with controlled vocabularies here, specifically on the definition of &#8220;Contented&#8221;, specifically in including the emotion  but this actually points to the impact of a limited set of options, and to the importance of definition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contented: Contented occurs quite often. Here&#8217;s how Chat describes it: The line <strong>\u201call the live long day\u201d<\/strong> reinforces the emotion <strong>Contented<\/strong> due to its emphasis on routine, consistency, and a lack of distress or urgency. It does <em>not<\/em> imply high pleasure or relaxation, but rather a stable, low-arousal, mildly positive tone aligned with enduring, simple activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emotions are included, even if that emotion is projected into the future. In &#8220;I&#8217;ll take you Home Again, Kathleeen&#8221;, &#8220;Contented&#8221; is included as a secondary emotion, where the lines &#8220;To where your heart will feel no pain, And when the fields are fresh and green&#8221; suggest a future goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In &#8220;I\u2019ve Been Working on the Railroad&#8221; &#8220;Contented&#8221; appears again, somewhat suprisingly to me. But in this version of the song, taken just at it&#8217;s textual value, are there any traces of <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Excited<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Happy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relaxed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bored<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Depressed: perhaps in the line &#8220;All the live-long day&#8221;, which brings with it the sense of a long day,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sad<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Angry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distressed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tense<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Wants to include Hopeful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-scatter\" data-src=\"visualisation\/23641470\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/23641470\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"scatter visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":322,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":""},"categories":[22379],"tags":[10096767],"data_themes":[],"class_list":["post-1028","data_overview","type-data_overview","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-data","tag-circumplex-12"],"acf":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/data_overview\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/data_overview"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/data_overview"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"data_themes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frequency.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdata_themes&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}