Emotions · Clusters

Hostile-judgmental

Structural — these share a form (a temporal direction, a stance toward the world, a relationship between self and object).

Emotions that direct outward and pronounce a verdict on their object. They differ by the verdict's content (this is wrong / this is beneath me / this is repulsive) and by whether they're keyed to a specific incident or carry forward as a sustained orientation. Together they sketch the map of how a person says *no* to the world.

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Core

Sits squarely in this cluster

Anger
Acute, bounded, addressable. Names a wrong and points at it. Has a verb: confront, demand, retaliate.
Contempt
Anger's cooler, hierarchical sibling. The other is judged beneath, not wrong-to-me. Less a wound than a sorting.
Disgust
The body's no. Pre-rational; pulls away before reasons are formed. Often morally mobilized after the fact.
Resentment
Anger held over time and re-felt. The wrong is past; the relationship to it has become a feature of the self.

Adjacent

Brushes against this cluster but lives more centrally elsewhere

Jealousy
Hostile orientation organized around a third party. Belongs partly here, partly in absence-organized — what one wants is what another has.