Introducing TEG-Code: A New Way to Understand Emotional Logic

Emotional Intelligence in Data Form

Position Paper - Introducing TEG-Code

🔷 Quick Overview

TEG-Code turns emotional behaviors—like guilt-tripping, gaslighting, or taking accountability—into structured, machine-readable data.

It helps systems and humans tell the difference between:

Survival vs. manipulation
Repair vs. performance
Connection vs. control

🔷 The Problem We’re Solving

Most tools treat emotions like simple labels:

happy, sad, angry.

But emotional behavior lives in intent, regulation state, and impact.

That’s why:

Gaslighting often goes unnoticed.
Emotional repair is mistaken for being “nice.”
Survivors doubt themselves for years.

We need tools that track emotional safety and harm with real structure.

🔷 What TEG-Code Offers

Each behavior is translated into:

Color Zone (green, orange, red)
Relational Intent (connect, protect, punish, control)
Pattern Type (repair cue, survival response, control tactic)
Relational Impact (builds trust, erodes safety)
Example Text (how it actually sounds or feels)

This isn’t “positive vs. negative”— It’s a gradient of intent and regulation.

🔷 How It Works

Each card is stored in JSON-LD, a web-friendly format.

That means it can be:

Parsed by machines
Queried by researchers
Expanded by therapists, coders, and survivors

Under the code is a trauma-aware emotional logic, built for systems that want to protect people—not control them.

Q&A

5 Common Myths About Emotional Data

Most systems treat emotion as either too messy to model—or too simple to need depth. These myths don’t just limit technology—they distort how we see human behavior. When emotional data is misunderstood, harm gets mislabeled as harmless, empathy gets misread as weakness, and real pain gets lost in translation. TEG-Code challenges these blind spots by offering a framework that sees emotion as structured, contextual, and essential—not soft, chaotic, or optional.

A quick breakdown of how most systems misunderstand emotion—and what TEG-Code offers instead.

❌ The Myth	⚠️ Why It’s Harmful	✅ TEG-Code’s Response
Emotions can be fully quantified	Reduces rich emotional states to numbers or scores—ignoring story, intent, and relational meaning.	Maps emotion as logic, not just data. Emotions are patterns, not metrics.
One universal model fits all	Erases cultural, neurodivergent, and trauma-based differences in emotional expression.	Builds flexibility into the model. Emotion = context × history × intent.
Emotional data is objective	Hides bias in labeling, power in framing, and context in meaning.	Makes emotional logic transparent. Shows behavior, impact, and motive—side by side.
Emotion is the opposite of logic	Devalues emotional reasoning, especially in survival or relational stress.	Frames emotion as structured logic. Defense and belonging are emotional algorithms.
Emotion models are only for therapy or AI	Excludes emotional awareness from systems that need it—like education, justice, or leadership.	Designs for systems, not silos. Emotional safety is a foundation for all human systems.

🔷 Sample Card (🔴 Gaslighting)

Intent: Control

Impact: Distorts reality

Example:

“You’re being way too sensitive. That’s not how it happened at all.”

🧠 Code version:

{
  "@context": {
    "eb": "https://emotionalblueprint.org/schema#",
    "rdfs": "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#",
    "xsd": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#"
  },
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@id": "eb:Card_003",
      "@type": "eb:Card",
      "rdfs:label": "Gaslighting",
      "rdfs:comment": "A manipulation tactic that makes someone question their perception of reality, memory, or emotions, in order to maintain power or avoid accountability.",
      "eb:colorZone": "red",
      "eb:intent": "control",
      "eb:patternType": "control tactic",
      "eb:exampleText": "You’re being way too sensitive. That’s not how it happened at all.",
      "eb:relationalImpact": "distorts reality",
      "eb:cardGroup": "Empathy Collapse"
    }
  ]
}