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Emotional Gate — emotion-modulated epistemic gate.
The emotional state of the system modulates the epistemic gate’s thresholds. This is Arm 2 of the emotional memory overhaul:
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High arousal → tighten reasoning threshold: emotional claims need more proof, not less. When the system is aroused, it’s more likely to make sloppy inferences, so the gate demands stronger reasoning.
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High positive valence → tighten narrative threshold: positive emotions make the system more likely to over-interpret (rosy retrospection). The gate tightens the narrative dimension.
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High emotional intensity → relieve FunctionalToPhenomenological penalty: when there’s genuine structural evidence of emotional processing (multiple episodes, strong evidence), the penalty for inferring phenomenological experience from functional state is reduced. This doesn’t remove the penalty — it acknowledges that strong structural evidence makes the inference less of a leap.
The key insight: emotions don’t override the epistemic gate. They modulate it. The gate still blocks — but it knows the emotional context and adjusts its strictness accordingly.
Structs§
- Emotional
Gate - An epistemic gate that is modulated by the system’s emotional state.
- Emotional
Gate Config - Configuration for emotion-modulated gating.