Threefold use of emotions: action selection
approach (“desire”), avoidance (“fear”), being-with (“confidence”), attending (“interest”), rejecting (“disgust”), non-attending (“indifference”), agonistic (“anger”), interrupting (“surprise”), dominating (“arrogance”), submitting (“humility”), deactivation (“sorrow”), bound activation (“effort”), excitement, free activation (“joy”), inactivity (“contentment”), inhibition (“anxiety”)
as separate classification system for behavioral repertory of an agent
behavior classes can be derived in a principled way from an analysis of a given lifeworld (including artificial ones)