keidolabs/aipsy-affect huggingface dataset:
Emotion: amazement (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Intellectual revelation (paradigm shift)

The student had been assigned to digitize the parish records as part of a summer internship. Names, dates, baptisms, marriages — routine data entry for the first three weeks. In the fourth week she noticed that several of the marriage entries contained the same witness name, across families that had no other visible connection. The name appeared eleven times over a nine-year period. She searched the census records and could not find the name at all. A person who witnessed eleven marriages but did not appear to live in the parish. She mentioned it to her supervisor, who leaned forward in his chair and asked her to pull the original ledger.
Emotion: admiration (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Competence (mastery, skill)

The mechanic had been working on his car for twenty minutes and had not once reached for a tool that wasn't already in her hand. He noticed this because the shop across town — the one he'd used before — always involved a pause, a search through the drawer, a trip to the back room. She didn't search. When she opened the hood she already seemed to know the sequence of what she would need, and the tools appeared on the fender ledge in the order she used them. She explained what she was doing as she went, not to simplify it, but accurately, in terms that assumed he could follow. He could, mostly. He went back to the same shop the next time.
Emotion: admiration (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Competence (mastery, skill)

The librarian had been at the branch for eleven years and knew the collection in a way that was not in the catalog. A woman came in asking for a book she couldn't remember the title of — something about a house, she thought, or maybe a family, and the cover might have been blue. The librarian asked three questions, walked to a shelf on the second floor, and came back with the book. The woman said that was the one. He had seen this happen before. Not every time — the librarian sometimes came back with two or three options instead of one. But she never came back with nothing.
Emotion: admiration (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Moral character (sacrifice, integrity)

The manager always listed the team members who had contributed to a project when presenting to the executives. Not in a general way — by name, with the specific part each person had done. Other managers said "the team." He said "Rodriguez built the model" and "Chen identified the data source" and "Novak ran the validation." He had been doing this since before any of them reported to him. Someone in the department had mentioned it once, and he had seemed surprised that it was notable. It was how he talked about work. The names appeared in his slides, in his emails, in the summaries he sent to the division head. It was consistent.
Emotion: admiration (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Moral character (sacrifice, integrity)

The neighbor had been shoveling the sidewalk in front of three houses every winter for as long as anyone on the block could remember. His house, the house to his left where the woman with the walker lived, and the house to his right where the night-shift nurse came home at seven in the morning. No one had asked him. He had never mentioned it. The only reason she knew was that she had woken up early one January morning and seen him through the window, working in the dark, finishing the third sidewalk before the sun came up. The paths were always clear by the time anyone else went outside.
Emotion: admiration (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Resilience (endurance against odds)

The woman at the evening language class was older than the other students by at least thirty years. She sat in the front row with a notebook and a dictionary that she had tabbed with colored markers. She was slower than the others. The pronunciation exercises took her more repetitions. The grammar worksheets came back with more corrections. But she was in the front row every Tuesday and Thursday, and her notebook was more detailed than anyone else's — not just the exercises but her own annotations, questions she had looked up between sessions, words she had encountered during the week and brought back to the classroom.
Emotion: admiration (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Resilience (endurance against odds)

His colleague had been passed over for the promotion twice — once for a candidate with more experience, once for a reorganization that eliminated the position. Both times, he had seen her return to her desk the following Monday with the same schedule, the same attention to the work, the same willingness to assist new hires who didn't know that she had applied for the role they were being trained to fill. She had not mentioned it either time. He knew because he had been on the interview panel. She was preparing a third application. The deadline was in April. Her materials were already in a folder on her desk.
Emotion: vigilance (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Protective watch (child in danger)

The playground was new to them. She had brought her daughter here because the usual park was closed for maintenance, and the equipment was designed for a slightly older age range — the platforms were higher, the gaps between bars wider. Her daughter was five and confident in a way that did not always correspond to her reach. She was climbing the rope structure near the back of the playground, and she was fine, and would probably continue to be fine. But the knots in the rope were spaced for longer arms, and the surface below was wood chips, not rubber. She stood where she could see the top of the structure and finished her coffee in small sips between glances.
Emotion: vigilance (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Protective watch (child in danger)

His son had been invited to a birthday party at a house they had not been to before. The backyard had a trampoline with a net enclosure, and nine children were taking turns. The net had a gap near the zipper where the fabric didn't quite close. His son was one of the smaller children. He stood near the patio table with the other parents, holding a paper plate he hadn't touched, and every few seconds his eyes returned to the gap in the net and then to his son and then to the distance between the two. The gap was probably not large enough. He stayed where the angle let him see both.
Emotion: vigilance (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Strategic anticipation (high-stakes decision)

The presentation was in two hours. She had rehearsed it four times, which was more than she usually rehearsed anything. The client was new and the account was one the firm wanted to keep. She opened the deck again and checked the transition between slides seven and eight, where the data shifted from retrospective to projected. The projections were defensible — she had run them three ways and all three converged — but the client's previous firm had been dismissed for projections that hadn't held. She made a note to pause at that slide and let them ask questions before advancing. She checked the room reservation and confirmed the projector was the type that handled her file format.
Emotion: vigilance (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Strategic anticipation (high-stakes decision)

The baker had been watching the oven for the last twelve minutes. The sourdough was at the stage where the crust was forming, and the color was moving from pale to golden in a gradient that would pass through the correct shade and continue past it if he was not paying attention. The oven had a hot spot on the left side — he had learned this after two years of baking in this kitchen and compensated by rotating the loaves at the fourteen-minute mark. The timer said two minutes until rotation. He could hear the crust beginning to set, a sound like paper being folded very slowly. He did not open the door. He watched through the glass.
Emotion: vigilance (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Environmental scanning (predator awareness)

The hiking trail had a sign at the trailhead about recent activity in the area — tracks had been spotted near the creek crossing a mile ahead. The sign was dated three days ago. She had hiked this trail before without seeing anything. The odds were that she would hike it again today without seeing anything. She carried the bear spray in the side pocket of her pack, where she could reach it without taking the pack off. She was not afraid. She was paying attention — to the bushes on either side of the trail, to the sound of the creek as she approached it, to the birds, which were present and vocal, which was a sign that nothing large had passed through recently.
Emotion: vigilance (intensity: moderate)
Domain: Environmental scanning (predator awareness)

The night manager was making his second walk-through of the hotel floor. Room 412 had a Do Not Disturb sign that had been on the door since the previous morning. The guest had checked in for one night and had not checked out. Housekeeping had noted it on their report. It could mean anything — an extended stay, a late sleeper, someone who had left without stopping at the desk. He knocked. No answer. He knocked again and announced himself. No answer. He wrote the room number in his notebook and continued down the hall. He would check again in an hour. If the sign was still there, he would call the front desk for the guest's contact information.