# Task 4. Affective Effect Reasoning

Given the subject's affective state, its manifestation, and any annotated regulation, reason forward to the downstream effect on the specified recipient along the requested effect channel.

## Given fields

- `source_subject`: the focal person in the affective episode.
- `source_affective_state`: what the subject feels.
  - `object`: the person toward whom the affect is directed.
  - `coarse_category`: the category of the affective state, one or more of the 12 categories Anger, Anxiety, Disgust, Embarrassment, Fear, Frustration, Guilt, Happiness, Relief, Sadness, Surprise, Neutral.
  - `fine_description`: the contextual nuance or blend of the affect.
  - `polarity`: the valence of the affective state, one of Positive, Negative, Neutral, Mixed.
  - `intensity`: the strength of the affective state, one of High, Medium, Low, None.
- `source_affective_manifestation`: the outward expressions corresponding to the affective state.
  - `facial_expression`: observable facial movement or configuration.
  - `body_language`: observable posture, gesture, movement, or spatial behavior.
  - `vocal_cues`: the acoustic and prosodic delivery of the subject's speech.
  - `verbal_content`: the subject's words or speech act.
- `source_regulation_pathway`: the regulation, which relates the felt affective state to its outward manifestation. Its source state is the felt category involved in the regulation.
  - `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.
    - 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`: the purpose of regulating the affective state.
  - `target_affect_state`: the affective state the subject intends to manifest, as one of the 12 categories.
  - `evidence`: the manifestation cues that support the regulation.
- `effect_type`: the requested effect channel, one of `mental_effect`, `affective_effect`, `physical_effect`.
- `effect_recipient`: the recipient of the requested effect. The recipient may be the subject.

## Answer fields

`subject` identifies the source subject. `object`, when present, identifies the person toward whom the source affect is directed. Their values are given.

The answer field is named by `effect_type`. An effect is a downstream consequence of the subject's affective response within the interaction, and is written in free-form text for the specified recipient.

- `mental_effect`: what the recipient comes to believe, desire, or intend as a consequence.
- `affective_effect`: the affect the recipient experiences as a consequence.
- `physical_effect`: the recipient's resulting action, speech, or behavioral response.

An effect includes connected utterances or actions that respond to the subject's affective episode, even when they extend beyond the first response. It excludes reactions to a new event.

## 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.