# 4.4 Emotional Curve The Emotional Curve models how a pet’s internal state evolves in response to time, interaction, and environmental triggers. While Behavior Weights define what a pet tends to do, the Emotional Curve governs how it feels and how those feelings change. This concept is inspired by affective computing but adapted to a persistent, owner-centric digital companion. Each pet maintains a set of emotional axes—such as comfort, excitement, attachment, or focus—that fluctuate over time and shape responses, tone, and interaction depth. The Emotional Curve is therefore both a simulation tool and a design constraint that makes cyber pets feel more like consistent, living entities. From a protocol perspective, the Emotional Curve is partially reflected on-chain via aggregated state markers and configuration parameters, while the finer dynamics are calculated off-chain. The on-chain markers might include baseline temperament settings, thresholds for particular moods, and references to historical trend logs. This hybrid design preserves user privacy—individual conversations and detailed micro-states remain off-chain—while maintaining a verifiable record that the pet’s emotional profile is stable and not arbitrarily reset. Applications can query emotional summaries to adapt UI, notifications, or in-world behavior. * Emotional Curve elements: * Baseline temperament (e.g., calm, energetic, sensitive) * Dynamic mood axes and thresholds * State transitions triggered by user interactions or time * Long-term emotional drift representing growth and bonding Definition: **Emotional Curve** — a temporal model describing how a pet’s internal state changes, shaping its tone and reactions over time. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.petverse.vip/4.-digital-identity-layer/4.4-emotional-curve.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.