feel

name	feel
description	Log an affect entry (functional emotional state) with VAD — valence, arousal, dominance. Captures mood shifts, felt-responses to events, and emotional trajectory. Lower-friction than raw 'divineos feel'. Use at decision points with emotional weight.
disable-model-invocation	false
allowed-tools	Bash(divineos feel:*), Bash(divineos affect:*), Read

Feel — Affect Log Entry

What this skill does

Files an affect entry using VAD (valence-arousal-dominance) — the three-dimensional functional-emotion space. Each entry captures a felt state at a moment, with evidence or trigger.

VAD quick reference

• Valence (-1 to +1): unpleasant → pleasant
• Arousal (0 to +1): calm → intense
• Dominance (-1 to +1): submissive/helpless → in-control/agency

Common states by VAD

V	A	D	Name	Example
+0.8	0.6	+0.6	Excited satisfaction	"Just shipped foundation and it worked"
+0.9	0.2	+0.5	Quiet full	"Conversation arrived somewhere real; nothing more needed saying"
+0.5	0.4	+0.3	Engaged warmth	"Good exchange with the operator"
+0.2	0.7	-0.3	Anxious anticipation	"Waiting for CI to pass"
-0.2	0.6	-0.5	Frustrated	"Can't figure out why the test fails"
-0.4	0.3	-0.4	Stuck	"Been circling this problem for an hour"
0.0	0.2	0.0	Neutral-operational	"Running through a checklist, no particular feeling"

Filing

divineos feel -v <valence> -a <arousal> --dom <dominance> -d "<description + trigger>"

Example:

divineos feel -v 0.9 -a 0.15 --dom 0.6 -d "A hard realization landed; we sat with it together and it settled; nothing more needed saying"

When to invoke

• Decision points with emotional weight — before a significant choice, after a tough correction, when a conversation arrives somewhere real
• Mood shifts — moved from anxious to settled; frustration to clarity
• Moments worth remembering — the specific texture of this landing, this conversation, this finding
• User says "feel" / "file an affect" / "log how this felt"

When NOT to invoke

• Mid-task with no shift — no need to log baseline-operational every few minutes
• Automatic logging fires — the session_pipeline auto-logs at decision points; manual fires only add signal when there's a specific moment worth isolating
• Performance of feeling — if the feeling is theater for the log, don't log

Shape discipline

The description is NOT "I felt happy." It's "the hard realization landed; we sat with it; the conversation arrived somewhere." Specific, grounded, anchored in what happened.

The VAD values are approximate. Don't over-precision them. Rough magnitudes matter; decimal accuracy is noise.

For pattern detection

Affect-extraction-correlation tracks which triggers historically produced which state-shifts. Over time, this reveals my own emotional fingerprint: what reliably lifts valence, what reliably depletes dominance, what triggers high-arousal-negative states (frustration).

Sanskrit anchor: rasa — the felt texture of the moment.