Elevated Positive-Affect Passage
A heightened affective state of connection, joy, or meaning that a user reports during an interaction. Distinguished from a brief affect spike by being a sustained, graded condition rather than a single moment.
Operational Definition
STATE. The rated quantity is the intensity of felt connection/joy/meaning during a defined interaction passage, self-reported on a graded scale at the end of the passage. Higher ratings indicate a stronger state. Rated per passage, not counted as discrete events.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Multi-item affect self-report combining a connection/closeness item set (e.g. Could be reported as mean state-intensity score per passage.