ESIL — Emotion State Interchange Language
Functional Empathy is about understanding not just feelings, but emotional states
What is ESIL?
The Emotion State Interchange Language (ESIL™) is MEC’s dynamic emotional protocol — a structured emotional interchange format that encodes how emotions move, blend, and evolve over time.
Unlike flat emotion tags (e.g., “happy” or “angry”), ESIL models trajectory, intensity, blended states, and transitions. It captures not just what someone feels, but where that feeling is going.
In MEC, emotion is never static. ESIL is the motion layer of empathy.
Where It Lives in the System
ESIL activates after emotional primitives are identified via EIL.
It formalizes the emotional arc, determines blend compatibility, and assembles a state packet that represents the full emotion being experienced or conveyed.
Feeds into:
ERIS (for emotional reasoning and validation)
FEC (for response strategy generation)
Why It Matters
Emotions don’t exist in isolation. They live in arcs, spirals, and transitions.
ESIL is what allows MEC to identify when sadness is becoming shame, or when fear is evolving into anger. It is how MEC knows when to step in with care — or escalate to Recovery Mode.
This emotional flow modeling is critical for real-time empathy, cultural attunement, and preventing harm through misinterpretation.
Technical Summary
Input: EIL Packet + Codex mappings
Output: ESIL Packet — containing blend weights, arc predictions, and intensity levels
Special Logic:
Confidence Gate (calculates Edetect score via ML + Symbolic Agreement)
Arc Detection
Blend Compatibility Filtering
Packet Type:
ESIL PacketRole in HEART Compliance: Validates trajectory logic, flags instability or masking
Key Relationships
Sends output to:
ERIS,FECInteracts with:
Codex Informer,Confidence Gate, and optionallyHEI(if signal suppression is detected)May trigger: Pseudo-ESIL fallback via Hidden Emotional Inference (HEI)