READING-EMOTIONS-AT-WORK5 MIN READ
Sort signals by emotion family
Sort visible workplace cues into likely emotion-family hypotheses without overclaiming certainty.
Sort each workplace scene by the first emotion-family hypothesis you would hold lightly. Threat / protection cues Boundary / rejection cues Loss / disappointment cues Frozen posture under pressure threat Firm jaw during interruption boundary Downcast after cancellation loss Pullback from proposed change Widened eyes at new risk Slumped after demo failure emotion-family sorting Built a first-pass map for visible emotional signals. Sort by likely function: protect, defend/reject, or process loss.
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