PerformanceNet Taxonomy
82 descriptive fields · 8 separate observer impressions
Find the precise field for what a performance does. This compact registry explains every name and scale direction, then points to the complete anchors and observation guidance.
Each has written 0–6 anchors.
Numeric codes identify contexts.
The viewer’s response is separate.
The Humaneness Script Analysis System authors performance inputs from source material. The Humaneness Performance Annotation System describes generated or recorded performance. Shared taxonomies connect prompting, annotation, representation and data selection.
Reader’s guide
PerformanceNet is the shared performance vocabulary within Humaneness PerformanceNet. Its 82 descriptive fields comprise 41 inherited fields in Appendix A and 41 added observable fields in Appendix B. The eight observer impressions in Appendix B form a separate layer.
| Layer | What the value means |
|---|---|
| 79 ordinal fields | Choose the written anchor from 0 to 6. The endpoints below show direction; consult the full scale before assigning an intermediate value. A higher value is not automatically better. |
| 3 category fields | Shot Scale, Interaction Setting and Body Configuration use numeric category codes. Preserve the named category; do not treat these codes as amounts or average them as quality. |
| 8 impressions | Record how a specified observer responds, with access, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence. Do not silently add these to the 82 descriptive fields. |
| Missing evidence | Use null with a reason when a rating is unsupported or inapplicable. Zero is a valid written anchor or category, never a synonym for missing. |
Read inherited explanations with an observation boundary. Some Appendix A definitions use cognitive, physiological or psychological language. Their exact definitions remain below for source fidelity. Observable behavior can support a performance description; it does not directly verify a brain state, motive, deception or private feeling. Appendix B provides narrower observable descriptions where useful.
In the Humaneness Script Analysis System, source material informs Character Makeup, scene obligations including Emotional obligations, and ordered Acting Beats with one Experience Chunk each. The resulting prompt guides an AI actor to generate audio or audio with video. In the Humaneness Performance Annotation System, an observer describes the resulting performance, or a reference recording, using available evidence.
Keep requested targets, observed labels and observer judgments in separate fields. Their shared vocabulary supports prompt construction, searchable annotation, model representations and diverse data selection. A downstream reward model needs a declared target, task and calibration; the taxonomy alone supplies neither a trained model nor a universal quality score.
Pair these fields with the PerformanceNet Situation Taxonomy when selecting scene contexts. A taxonomy coordinate does not establish that a recording exists or that the intended combination has been achieved.
The title names the field; the small code is its stable identifier. The definition is inherited source wording. The local scale label distinguishes an ordered scale from a category. Every entry links to its full anchors in Appendix A or Appendix B. The structured registry also retains every anchor, source note and observation cue.
Source abbreviations are expanded next to their use. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is the brain-region phrase abbreviated DLPFC; the source’s “System 1 / System 2” describes intuitive versus deliberate processing as an explanatory model, not an observation channel.
Receptivity & Influencability REC-INF · Executive Control vs. Spontaneity COG-EXE · Motor Inhibition COG-INH · Cognitive Load & Absorption COG-LOD
REC-INF · Ordinal scale 0–6
Permeability to external impulses: how far the person lets the environment — sounds, partner, atmosphere, weather in the room — organically modulate their behaviour.
Scale direction: 0 Hermetically sealed. Crossed arms and legs, ambient events produce no reaction at all. → 6 Radically permeable. Every ambient event visibly passes through the body.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 4
COG-EXE · Ordinal scale 0–6
Whether the performance is rationally planned (System 2 / DLPFC (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; an inherited source explanation)) or generated intuitively in the moment (System 1). Low = a programme is being run off; high = behaviour is invented live.
Scale direction: 0 Fully scripted. Teleprompter feel, memorised, constant tempo, no live thought whatsoever. → 6 Wholly improvised presence. Every impulse is generated live — 'juggling several balls at once'.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 4
COG-INH · Ordinal scale 0–6
Suppression of intuitive motor impulses (ventrolateral prefrontal control). Are spontaneous movements allowed through, or actively frozen?
Scale direction: 0 Uninhibited. Every limbic signal becomes movement: weight shifts, scratching, blinking, fidgeting. → 6 Rigid hyper-control. Near-total motor shutdown — typical of deception, acute stress, unnatural posing.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 4
COG-LOD · Ordinal scale 0–6
Visible mental processing effort: how much of the person's capacity is bound up in an internal problem. Low = cognitively free, unencumbered, available for anything. High = lost in thought, mentally elsewhere.
Scale direction: 0 Completely unencumbered. Effortless and available; nothing is being worked on internally. → 6 Total absorption. Brow locked, gaze unseeing, the environment has effectively disappeared.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 5
Goal Orientation INT-GOL · Tactical Adaptivity INT-TAC · Partner-Directed Attention ATT-PTR · Attentional Aperture ATT-APR · Gaze Anchoring ATT-GAZ · Concurrent Task Load ACT-TSK
INT-GOL · Ordinal scale 0–6
How strongly the behaviour is organised around something the person wants to achieve in the scene (the Stanislavskian 'objective'). Wanting something from someone, as against simply being in a state.
Scale direction: 0 No objective. Pure state or drift; the behaviour serves nothing. → 6 Absolute drive. Words, body, gaze and timing are all instrumental to the objective.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 5
INT-TAC · Ordinal scale 0–6
Given an objective, how far the person varies tactics — charm, threat, plea, joke, withdrawal — when the current one fails.
Scale direction: 0 One tactic, repeated regardless of effect. → 6 Continuous re-strategising. Every rebuff produces a new, fully committed approach.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 5
ATT-PTR · Ordinal scale 0–6
How much attention is allocated to another person (or a specific target) as opposed to the self, the task or the environment.
Scale direction: 0 The partner is effectively absent. Wholly self- or task-absorbed. → 6 Total fixation. Every micro-signal of the other is tracked; nothing else exists.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 5
ATT-APR · Ordinal scale 0–6
The width of the attentional field: pinpoint tunnel vision through to panoramic, diffuse awareness.
Scale direction: 0 Extreme tunnel. One point; the surrounding world is gone (panic, threading a needle). → 6 Fully diffuse. No foreground at all; floating, unselective awareness.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 6
ATT-GAZ · Ordinal scale 0–6
The gaze regime: avoidance, through ordinary alternation of contact and release, to unbroken staring. Includes gaze stability.
Scale direction: 0 Avoidant. Eyes down or away; contact broken the instant it occurs. → 6 Unbroken locked stare with no release — confrontation, trance, predation.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 6
ACT-TSK · Ordinal scale 0–6
How much of the person's hands and attention are committed to a practical task running alongside the situation — stage business, work, cooking, driving, a phone, a child.
Scale direction: 0 No task. Hands free; the person is wholly available to the situation. → 6 The task dominates. Language survives only as fragments between operations.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 6
Sensory Grounding PHY-SEN · Motor Output Source PHY-MOS · Somatic Arousal PHY-ARO · Muscular Tension PHY-TEN · Weight & Groundedness PHY-GRD
PHY-SEN · Ordinal scale 0–6
How far the person is anchored in physical sensation as against being caught inside their own intellect: consciously living in the skin, receiving texture, room climate and bodily feeling.
Scale direction: 0 Fully abstracted. Disembodied; cold, material and texture go unregistered; eyes turned inward though open. → 6 Fully inhabited. Every touch, sound and breath is lived; movement is soft and grounded.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 6
PHY-MOS · Ordinal scale 0–6
The primary origin of movement: premotor areas serving cognitive illustration (head-driven) or the autonomic nervous system as affective expression (gut-driven).
Scale direction: 0 Purely illustrative. Hands are a baton for speech; movement stops the moment speaking stops. → 6 Pure somatic discharge. Movement unlinked to language; raw affect regulation.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 7
PHY-ARO · Ordinal scale 0–6
Visible physiological activation, from near-shutdown to fight-or-flight. The visual counterpart of VoiceNet AROU (Arousal).
Scale direction: 0 Near-shutdown. Slumped, minimal movement, heavy lids. → 6 Maximum mobilisation. Panic- or rage-level activation; breath at its ceiling.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 7
PHY-TEN · Ordinal scale 0–6
Postural tonus in neck, jaw, shoulders and hands. The visual counterpart of VoiceNet TENS (Tension).
Scale direction: 0 Collapsed. No tonus at all; boneless, poured into the furniture. → 6 Rigid. The whole body armoured; tremor from sustained contraction.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 7
PHY-GRD · Ordinal scale 0–6
Vertical organisation and relation to gravity: collapsed and pulled down, through ordinary uprightness, to lifted and ungrounded.
Scale direction: 0 Collapsed into gravity. Sunken chest, weight dragging. → 6 Floating or rigidly elevated. Ungrounded; weight barely committed to the floor.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 7
Exertion & Metabolic Load PHY-EXR · Energy & Vitality PHY-VIT · Somatic Distress PHY-DIS · Motor Coordination & Control Integrity PHY-COO · Involuntary Intrusion PHY-INV · Environmental Pressure ENV-PRS
PHY-EXR · Ordinal scale 0–6
Current physical demand on the body, from complete rest to maximum effort.
Scale direction: 0 Complete rest. No metabolic demand; breath is entirely available for speech. → 6 Maximal. Speech breaks down; single syllables between gasps.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 8
PHY-VIT · Ordinal scale 0–6
The reserve available to the person: depletion at one end, surplus at the other. Covers sleep state, recovery and the aftermath of effort.
Scale direction: 0 Depleted. Nothing left; every movement costs visible effort. → 6 Surging. Restless surplus that outruns the situation.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 8
PHY-DIS · Ordinal scale 0–6
How far the body is a source of trouble the person is managing — pain, illness, cold, heat, nausea, breathlessness. Rated by its effect on behaviour, never as a diagnosis.
Scale direction: 0 The body is unproblematic. Nothing is being endured. → 6 Overwhelming. The state of the body governs everything; purposeful behaviour collapses.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 8
PHY-COO · Ordinal scale 0–6
How integrated the person's motor control appears, from gross disintegration through ordinary competence to virtuosic precision.
Scale direction: 0 Grossly disintegrated. Balance, timing and articulation fail; movement lands wide of its target. → 6 Exceptional. Virtuosic accuracy of timing and placement.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 8
PHY-INV · Ordinal scale 0–6
How often behaviour is broken into by events outside volitional control: tremor, shivering, coughing, sobbing, laughing fits, hiccups, tics, flinches, spasms.
Scale direction: 0 None. Behaviour is uninterrupted by involuntary events. → 6 Continuous hijacking. Volitional behaviour survives only between spasms.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 9
ENV-PRS · Ordinal scale 0–6
How far the surroundings force adaptation: noise, wind, cold, heat, rain, crowding, confinement, unstable ground, protective clothing or equipment.
Scale direction: 0 Neutral. The environment makes no demand; behaviour is unshaped by it. → 6 Overwhelming. Surviving the environment displaces the situation entirely.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 9
Kinetic Amplitude KIN-AMP · Movement Flow KIN-FLO · Motor Tempo KIN-TMP · Facial Expressivity FAC-EXP
KIN-AMP · Ordinal scale 0–6
The size of the kinesphere: how much space the movement claims.
Scale direction: 0 Near-motionless. Movement confined to the fingers. → 6 Maximal. The whole room or stage used; extreme extension.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 9
KIN-FLO · Ordinal scale 0–6
Bound versus free flow (Laban): whether movement is continuously braked or released into momentum.
Scale direction: 0 Completely bound. Every movement could be stopped at any instant; viscous control. → 6 Abandoned. Movement runs away with the body.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 9
KIN-TMP · Ordinal scale 0–6
The speed of bodily movement, rated independently of speech tempo.
Scale direction: 0 Extremely slow. Movement almost sub-perceptual. → 6 Frantic. Movement blurs.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 10
FAC-EXP · Ordinal scale 0–6
Amplitude and mobility of the face, independent of which emotion is displayed — the emotion category belongs to EmoNet.
Scale direction: 0 Deadpan. A near-frozen mask; no visible facial action. → 6 Hyper-expressive. Caricatured and maximally amplified (clowning, silent film, cartoon dubbing).
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 10
Relational Entrainment SOC-ENT · Status & Spatial Dominance SOC-STA · Proxemic Regulation SOC-PRX · Turn-Taking Dynamics SOC-TRN · Situational Stakes SOC-STK · Formality & Ritual Register SOC-FRM
SOC-ENT · Ordinal scale 0–6
How far the person synchronises visually, acoustically and emotionally with an interaction partner (or an imagined audience). A measure of bidirectional coupling.
Scale direction: 0 Isolated and monologic. The partner's feedback is ignored; the text or the emotion is delivered regardless. → 6 Full fusion. Shared breath and speech rhythm; states pass between the two bodies.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 10
SOC-STA · Ordinal scale 0–6
Enacted status in the relationship: physical submission through to complete dominance (Johnstone's status play; visual counterpart of VoiceNet STNC (Stance)).
Scale direction: 0 Maximally low. Making oneself small, appeasing, self-shrinking. → 6 Overwhelming. Occupies all space and time; everyone else organises around them.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 10
SOC-PRX · Ordinal scale 0–6
Distance regulation and approach–avoidance towards the partner, the object of interest or the camera.
Scale direction: 0 Maximal avoidance. Recoils, increases distance, puts objects in between. → 6 Intimate distance sustained; the boundary is continuously crossed.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 11
SOC-TRN · Ordinal scale 0–6
How transitions between speakers are handled: gaps, latching, overlap and interruption.
Scale direction: 0 Long latencies; turns are dropped and not picked up. → 6 Continuous interruption. The turn is seized and held; the partner is overrun.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 11
SOC-STK · Ordinal scale 0–6
How much appears to be at risk for the person in this situation, read from their behaviour rather than from the plot.
Scale direction: 0 Nothing at stake. Purely phatic; no outcome depends on this. → 6 Existential. Life, safety or an entire relationship rides on the next few minutes.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 11
SOC-FRM · Ordinal scale 0–6
The social register being observed, from wholly private and unguarded behaviour to codified, ceremonial conduct.
Scale direction: 0 Wholly private. No register maintained; behaviour as if alone or entirely intimate. → 6 Ritual. Behaviour prescribed by form — liturgy, protocol, drill, ceremony.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 11
Multimodal Congruence COH-CON · Emotional Blending & Continuity COH-BLE · Transparency vs. Masking COH-MSK · Audio-Visual Synchrony COH-SYN
COH-CON · Ordinal scale 0–6
Fit between the modalities: do tone of voice, facial expression, body language and semantic content agree emotionally and semantically?
Scale direction: 0 Extreme contradiction. Something cheerful said in an aggressive voice with folded arms. → 6 Seamless symbiosis. The word 'grief', the tear in the voice, the lowered gaze and the collapsed shoulder form a single statement.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 12
COH-BLE · Ordinal scale 0–6
The kinetic and auditory fluidity of state changes: how softly and organically one emotion or gesture passes into the next, without mechanical discontinuity.
Scale direction: 0 Glitchy. States are switched on and off; staccato, machine-like. → 6 Continuous morphing. No discrete states can be identified at all.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 12
COH-MSK · Ordinal scale 0–6
Assessment of leakage: how far the person tries to cover their true System-1 impulses with a social mask (display rules).
Scale direction: 0 Fully transparent. Every inner movement is immediately and mercilessly legible; no filter between feeling and expression. → 6 Rigid façade. A fixed, artificial expression is held; the subtext surfaces only in fragments.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 12
COH-SYN · Ordinal scale 0–6
Temporal alignment of visible articulation, gesture strokes and breath with the acoustic signal.
Scale direction: 0 Grossly desynchronised. Lips and sound are visibly uncoupled — dubbing, sync error, artefact. → 6 Machine-perfect. Unnaturally exact alignment across all channels.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 12
Audience Awareness FRM-AUD · Stylisation Level FRM-STY
FRM-AUD · Ordinal scale 0–6
Orientation towards a watching audience or camera: fully private behaviour through to direct address.
Scale direction: 0 Fully private. Behaves as if unobserved; hidden-camera or documentary quality. → 6 Direct address. The fourth wall is broken; the audience is treated as a scene partner.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 13
FRM-STY · Ordinal scale 0–6
Distance from everyday behaviour: naturalism through to codified stylisation.
Scale direction: 0 Indistinguishable from unperformed life. → 6 Fully formalised. Behaviour governed by form rather than by situation (mask, butoh, chorus).
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 13
Subject Visibility CAP-VIS · Shot Scale CAP-SHT · Interaction Setting CAP-INT · Body Configuration CAP-POS
CAP-VIS · Ordinal scale 0–6
How much of the person is actually observable in the clip, including obstruction by masks, helmets, veils, visors or a hand over the face.
Scale direction: 0 Not visible. Off-screen or fully occluded. → 6 Optimal. Full body, face and hands unobstructed, evenly lit.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 13
CAP-SHT · Category codes 0–6
The framing of the subject. Categorical rather than ordinal in the usual sense, but ordered from tightest to widest.
Categories: 0 Extreme close-up (eyes, mouth).; 1 Close-up (face).; 2 Medium close-up (head and chest).; 3 Medium (to the waist).; 4 Medium long (to the knees).; 5 Long / full figure (whole body).; 6 Extreme long / wide (figure small within the frame).
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 13
CAP-INT · Category codes 0–6
The interactional configuration of the clip; determines whether the SOC (social-dynamics fields) group applies.
Categories: 0 Solo, apparently unaware of being observed.; 1 Solo monologue or soliloquy.; 2 Direct address to camera or audience.; 3 Dyad (one scene partner).; 4 Small group (three to five).; 5 Large group or crowd.; 6 Mediated exchange (telephone, video call, voice-over).
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 14
CAP-POS · Category codes 0–6
The gross configuration of the body relative to gravity and support. Context rather than behaviour, but it changes what an ordinary value means on several other axes.
Categories: 0 Lying — supine or prone.; 1 Reclined or propped; weight substantially supported.; 2 Seated.; 3 Standing.; 4 In locomotion — walking, running, climbing, riding.; 5 Crouched, kneeling, bent, or confined in a restricted space.; 6 Suspended, inverted, pinned or physically restrained.
Complete anchors and guidance · Appendix A · inherited source page 14
Postural openness BOD-OPN · Occupied bodily space BOD-EXP · Orientation toward the interaction target BOD-ORI · Bilateral postural symmetry BOD-SYM · Postural stability BOD-STB · Movement rigidity BOD-RIG · Self-directed regulatory movement BOD-ADP · Motor restlessness BOD-RST
BOD-OPN · Ordinal scale 0–6
How exposed or enclosed the torso and limbs are relative to the person’s support and task.
Scale direction: 0 Torso tightly enclosed by limbs or objects → 6 Maximum feasible exposure and opening for this body configuration
Evidence required: visual.
BOD-EXP · Ordinal scale 0–6
Expansion of the body’s occupied space relative to its ordinary supported configuration.
Scale direction: 0 Maximally contracted into a small envelope → 6 Maximum feasible reach or spread
Evidence required: visual.
BOD-ORI · Ordinal scale 0–6
Alignment of the visible body with a documented partner, object or shared task.
Scale direction: 0 Body directly turned away → 6 All available body regions strongly oriented toward target
Evidence required: visual with target.
BOD-SYM · Ordinal scale 0–6
Similarity of left and right postural organisation during comparable task phases.
Scale direction: 0 Strongly asymmetric throughout → 6 Near-mirrored configuration throughout
Evidence required: visual.
BOD-STB · Ordinal scale 0–6
Observed maintenance of support and balance under the demands visible in the scene.
Scale direction: 0 Support repeatedly fails or collapses → 6 Exceptionally stable through substantial visible disturbance
Evidence required: visual.
BOD-RIG · Ordinal scale 0–6
Constraint of joints and transitions into fixed, angular or resistant movement patterns.
Scale direction: 0 Freely yielding, highly fluid articulation → 6 Near-total visible rigidity when movement is attempted
Evidence required: visual.
BOD-ADP · Ordinal scale 0–6
Prominence of visible self-touch, rubbing, grooming or repetitive object handling that is not the main practical task.
Scale direction: 0 None during an adequate observation window → 6 Nearly continuous; repeatedly displaces the task
Evidence required: visual.
BOD-RST · Ordinal scale 0–6
Repeated repositioning or movement unrelated to progress on the immediate task.
Scale direction: 0 Sustained stillness apart from necessary task motion → 6 Almost continuous restless movement prevents sustained settling
Evidence required: visual.
Visible facial tension FAC-TEN · Facial mobility FAC-MOB · Facial expressive asymmetry FAC-ASY · Partner-directed gaze contact GAZ-CON · Gaze exploration GAZ-SCN
FAC-TEN · Ordinal scale 0–6
Apparent contraction or bracing of visible facial regions, recorded region by region.
Scale direction: 0 Very loose facial set without visible bracing → 6 Extreme sustained facial bracing or clenching
Evidence required: face visible.
FAC-MOB · Ordinal scale 0–6
Frequency and range of visible facial changes within a beat.
Scale direction: 0 No discernible facial change in a sufficiently visible interval → 6 Rapid, extensive changes throughout the beat
Evidence required: face visible.
FAC-ASY · Ordinal scale 0–6
Difference between visible left and right facial action during an expression.
Scale direction: 0 Near-mirrored action → 6 Almost entirely unilateral expressive action
Evidence required: face visible.
GAZ-CON · Ordinal scale 0–6
Share of available time in which the visible gaze is directed toward the identified interaction partner.
Scale direction: 0 No observed partner-directed gaze → 6 Unbroken partner-directed fixation over the unit
Evidence required: eyes and target visible.
GAZ-SCN · Ordinal scale 0–6
Rate and breadth of changes among visible or inferable gaze targets.
Scale direction: 0 One sustained target, no scanning → 6 Continuous wide-ranging scanning with little dwell
Evidence required: eyes visible.
Respiratory disruption in the performance PHY-BRT · Visible or audible trembling PHY-TRM · Residual disturbance after a marked event PHY-REC
PHY-BRT · Ordinal scale 0–6
Observable disruption of breath rhythm or breath support relative to the task.
Scale direction: 0 Even, unbroken breathing through the unit → 6 Breath disruption dominates; coherent action or phrasing scarcely continues
Evidence required: audio or visible breath.
PHY-TRM · Ordinal scale 0–6
Prominence of repeated oscillatory movement or vocal tremble in the available channel.
Scale direction: 0 No discernible trembling in an adequate window → 6 Trembling dominates the observed performance
Evidence required: audio or visual.
PHY-REC · Ordinal scale 0–6
How strongly an observed disturbance persists after its initiating event has ended.
Scale direction: 0 Immediate return to the established baseline → 6 No recovery or continued escalation across the follow-up window
Evidence required: audio or visual with recovery window.
Vocal projection and expressive force VOC-FOR · Articulatory precision VOC-ART · Local pitch excursion VOC-RNG · Continuity of speech flow VOC-FLW · Audible roughness VOC-RGH · Audible breathiness VOC-BRE · Speech pace VOC-PAC
VOC-FOR · Ordinal scale 0–6
Perceived force of vocal delivery relative to the recording and the speaker’s local baseline.
Scale direction: 0 Barely projected murmur or fragile near-silence → 6 Full-force shouting or screaming
Evidence required: audio.
VOC-ART · Ordinal scale 0–6
How distinctly speech sounds and word boundaries are formed, conditional on language competence and recording quality.
Scale direction: 0 Most linguistic articulation is indistinct → 6 Deliberately over-articulated or hyper-distinct delivery
Evidence required: audio.
VOC-RNG · Ordinal scale 0–6
Breadth of pitch movement within the utterance relative to that voice’s usable range.
Scale direction: 0 Essentially one sustained pitch level → 6 Extreme sweeps across the locally available range
Evidence required: audio.
VOC-FLW · Ordinal scale 0–6
Continuity of spoken phrasing through pauses, restarts and interruptions.
Scale direction: 0 Almost no sustained phrase; repeated fragmentation → 6 Almost uninterrupted stream through the unit
Evidence required: audio.
VOC-RGH · Ordinal scale 0–6
Perceived irregular, grainy or raspy quality of phonation.
Scale direction: 0 Very smooth, clear phonation → 6 Extreme roughness dominates the voice
Evidence required: audio.
VOC-BRE · Ordinal scale 0–6
Prominence of airflow noise mixed with the vocal signal.
Scale direction: 0 No discernible breathy component → 6 Predominantly breathy or whispered phonation
Evidence required: audio.
VOC-PAC · Ordinal scale 0–6
Perceived rate of linguistic delivery, with measured syllable or character rate stored separately.
Scale direction: 0 Extremely slow, widely separated speech → 6 Extremely rapid, near-rushing delivery
Evidence required: audio with transcript.
Affiliative warmth SOC-AFF · Displayed emotional exposure SOC-VUL · Interpersonal hostility SOC-HOS · Cooperative contribution SOC-COO · Response to expressed boundaries SOC-BND · Interaction repair SOC-REP · Responsive care SOC-CAR
SOC-AFF · Ordinal scale 0–6
Expressive invitation to friendly contact or shared connection with a specified other.
Scale direction: 0 Actively cold or rejecting contact → 6 Intense, unmistakable affiliative invitation
Evidence required: audio or visual with target.
SOC-VUL · Ordinal scale 0–6
How openly the person allows consequential need, uncertainty, hurt or dependence to be apparent to an audience.
Scale direction: 0 No exposure offered; tightly protected presentation → 6 Profound, unguarded exposure at high stakes
Evidence required: audio or visual with context.
SOC-HOS · Ordinal scale 0–6
Directed antagonism toward a particular other in the observable interaction.
Scale direction: 0 Actively conciliatory or protective → 6 Overwhelming directed threat, rejection or attack
Evidence required: audio or visual with target.
SOC-COO · Ordinal scale 0–6
Extent to which the person’s actions support the established joint task.
Scale direction: 0 Repeatedly obstructs or defeats the joint task → 6 Sustained exceptional coordination and support through difficulty
Evidence required: interaction evidence.
SOC-BND · Ordinal scale 0–6
How the person responds to a clearly expressed limit, refusal or request for distance.
Scale direction: 0 Overtly violates the stated limit repeatedly → 6 Consistently anticipates relevant limits and repairs any accidental crossing
Evidence required: boundary event available.
SOC-REP · Ordinal scale 0–6
Effectiveness of observable attempts to restore shared understanding after a disruption.
Scale direction: 0 No repair despite clear opportunity; disruption worsens → 6 Highly adaptive repair integrates feedback and sustains restored coordination
Evidence required: rupture and response available.
SOC-CAR · Ordinal scale 0–6
How specifically the response attends to another person’s expressed need or difficulty.
Scale direction: 0 Dismisses or exploits the expressed need → 6 Highly specific, flexible support that preserves the other’s agency
Evidence required: other person need and response available.
Expressed certainty COG-CER · Organisation of expressed reasoning COG-ORG · Updating after new evidence COG-REV · Expressed monitoring of one’s own understanding COG-MET
COG-CER · Ordinal scale 0–6
How firmly the person presents a specific belief, claim or chosen course of action.
Scale direction: 0 Explicitly unable to commit to a view → 6 Absolute certainty with no expressed alternative
Evidence required: audio or visual with proposition.
COG-ORG · Ordinal scale 0–6
Legibility of relationships among the reasons or steps actually expressed in the unit.
Scale direction: 0 No discernible relationship among expressed steps → 6 Exceptionally explicit structure and well-integrated contingencies
Evidence required: semantic access.
COG-REV · Ordinal scale 0–6
Observed revision of a stated understanding when relevant information becomes available.
Scale direction: 0 Rejects clear new information without engagement → 6 Flexible, coherent reorganisation with explicit uncertainty where warranted
Evidence required: new information and response available.
COG-MET · Ordinal scale 0–6
How visibly the person checks the limits, errors or uncertainty of their own current understanding.
Scale direction: 0 No checking despite a clear task opportunity → 6 Systematic, situation-sensitive checking without losing the task
Evidence required: semantic or task evidence.
Protective self-presentation PSY-DEF · Enacted conflict between incompatible impulses PSY-CON · Presentation of a public persona PSY-PRS
PSY-DEF · Ordinal scale 0–6
Observable effort to protect an image of oneself in response to a socially meaningful challenge.
Scale direction: 0 No apparent image protection; openly acknowledges the challenge → 6 Nearly all action serves maintaining the protected image
Evidence required: audio or visual with context.
PSY-CON · Ordinal scale 0–6
Prominence of competing actions or commitments manifested within the same situation.
Scale direction: 0 One consistent line of action without an evident competing impulse → 6 Conflict dominates; mutually incompatible actions cannot be integrated
Evidence required: audio or visual with context.
PSY-PRS · Ordinal scale 0–6
How strongly a recognisable public role or self-image is foregrounded in the encounter.
Scale direction: 0 No salient persona beyond the immediate exchange → 6 Highly sustained, dominating persona that shapes nearly every action
Evidence required: audio or visual with context.
Face–body expressive correspondence COH-FB · Face–voice expressive correspondence COH-FV · Body–voice expressive correspondence COH-BV · Words–delivery expressive correspondence COH-WD
COH-FB · Ordinal scale 0–6
Degree to which face and body support a compatible expressed reading in the same time interval.
Scale direction: 0 Strong, sustained contradiction → 6 Consistently close correspondence across the relevant expressive changes
Evidence required: both named channels available.
COH-FV · Ordinal scale 0–6
Degree to which face and voice support a compatible expressed reading in the same time interval.
Scale direction: 0 Strong, sustained contradiction → 6 Consistently close correspondence across the relevant expressive changes
Evidence required: both named channels available.
COH-BV · Ordinal scale 0–6
Degree to which body and voice support a compatible expressed reading in the same time interval.
Scale direction: 0 Strong, sustained contradiction → 6 Consistently close correspondence across the relevant expressive changes
Evidence required: both named channels available.
COH-WD · Ordinal scale 0–6
Degree to which literal words and expressive delivery support a compatible expressed reading in the same time interval.
Scale direction: 0 Strong, sustained contradiction → 6 Consistently close correspondence across the relevant expressive changes
Evidence required: both named channels available.
Engagement IMP-ENG · Believability in the stated scene IMP-BEL · Legibility of the intended action IMP-LEG · Perceived warmth IMP-WRM · Perceived threat IMP-THR · Perceived vulnerability IMP-VUL · Perceived competence IMP-CMP · Viewing or listening enjoyment IMP-ENJ
These eight fields record a particular viewer’s response. They do not increase the descriptive inventory from 82 to 90.
IMP-ENG · Observer response 0–6
How strongly this performance holds this viewer’s attention.
Scale direction: 0 Not at all → 6 Extremely
Record rater access, language competence, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence.
IMP-BEL · Observer response 0–6
How plausible the performed responses feel within the stated fictional or real context.
Scale direction: 0 Not at all → 6 Extremely
Record rater access, language competence, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence.
IMP-LEG · Observer response 0–6
How clearly the viewer can follow what this person is trying to do, conditional on access to the scene.
Scale direction: 0 Not at all → 6 Extremely
Record rater access, language competence, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence.
IMP-WRM · Observer response 0–6
How interpersonally welcoming this person seems to this viewer in this clip.
Scale direction: 0 Not at all → 6 Extremely
Record rater access, language competence, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence.
IMP-THR · Observer response 0–6
How threatening the performance feels to this viewer; not a prediction of dangerousness.
Scale direction: 0 Not at all → 6 Extremely
Record rater access, language competence, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence.
IMP-VUL · Observer response 0–6
How exposed or emotionally reachable the person seems to this viewer.
Scale direction: 0 Not at all → 6 Extremely
Record rater access, language competence, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence.
IMP-CMP · Observer response 0–6
How capable the person appears in the specific depicted task; not an assessment of general ability.
Scale direction: 0 Not at all → 6 Extremely
Record rater access, language competence, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence.
IMP-ENJ · Observer response 0–6
How rewarding this viewer finds attending to this performance; distress and artistic value may coexist.
Scale direction: 0 Not at all → 6 Extremely
Record rater access, language competence, cultural familiarity, reason and confidence.
Definitions, stable identifiers, scale values, anchors and distinctions derive from the supplied PerformanceNet master reference, edition 3.1. Appendix A reproduces the inherited 2.1 field wording; its page references remain beside each entry. Revision labels embedded in some definitions are consolidated here for readability; the exact strings remain in the structured registry.
This compact volume retains all 82 definitions and all eight impression definitions. The full A/B anchor tables and cues remain in their reference volumes and the structured data; no dimension has been merged or reversed. Appendix J records the broader source inventory and provenance.
Source fingerprint (SHA-256): 2fd2ed1f0b89d71ea2f37b4404f313f67732eb39fd9532d3e258daa253da2903.