As you can see, we started by using the 4 most basic categories of “glad, sad, mad, afraid” - which is not as sophisticated as some models, of course, but easy to “get.” Then we took the assumption that all feelings have value, basically:

Glad: reinforcement of what’s “good”; energizing
Sad: reinforcement of what we care about; reflecting
Mad: reinforcement of what we don’t like; motivating
Afraid: questioning risk; evaluating

Then we applied these based on our own perceptions to write the sentence stems and the notes.

Does that help?

Warmly,
- Josh

A really neat application and I have invited my own readers to use it in their pursuit of emotional intelligence.

I would be really interested to know more about the ideas and assumptions on emotions and moods you used in creating the Emotoscope.

best JOHN