Task 2. Regulation Decoding
Given the subject's felt affective state at the focal moment, read the outward display from the video and decide whether and how the subject regulates it relative to the given state.
Given fields
source_subject: the focal person in the affective episode.affective_state.object: the person toward whom the affect is directed.affective_state.coarse_category: the category of the subject's felt affective state, one of the 12 categories Anger, Anxiety, Disgust, Embarrassment, Fear, Frustration, Guilt, Happiness, Relief, Sadness, Surprise, Neutral. It is the source state of the regulation.affective_state.intensity: the strength of the felt affective state, one of High, Medium, Low, None.
Answer fields
subject: the focal person. Its value is given.
regulation_pathway: the regulation, which relates the felt affective state to its outward manifestation.
tactic_type: the regulatory relation between the source state and the target state, one of None, Suppression, Amplification, Substitution, Fabrication. When source and target share a non-neutral category, the relative intensity is the intensity conveyed by the manifestation relative to the felt intensity, one of lower, comparable, higher. The five tactics are defined as follows.- None: source and target are both Neutral, or they share a non-neutral category and the relative intensity is comparable.
- Suppression: source and target share a non-neutral category and the relative intensity is lower.
- Amplification: source and target share a non-neutral category and the relative intensity is higher.
- Substitution: the source category is not Neutral, and the target category is neither the source category nor Neutral.
- Fabrication: the source category is Neutral and the target category is not Neutral.
goal: free-form text stating the purpose of regulating the affective state.target_affect_state: the affective state the subject intends to manifest, as one of the 12 categories. Its intensity relative to the source is encoded by the tactic, not by this field. Under Suppression the target keeps the source category even when its outward expression becomes barely perceptible.evidence: free-form text describing the manifestation cues observed in the video that support the inferred regulation.
When tactic_type is "None", goal, target_affect_state and evidence are not populated, and their values in a template-shaped answer are empty strings.
Output
The answer is one JSON object with the fields of the answer template in the question. Placeholder entries in the template denote values to infer. The subject, object and recipient identifiers supplied in the template are fixed.