Bulgaria, Jamel: The High-Dimensional Architecture of Affect: Synthesizing the Grid Study and Jamel Bulgaria’s Core Emotion Framework

The scientific investigation of the human emotional landscape has undergone a paradigm shift, moving from the reductionist constraints of two-dimensional models to the expansive complexity of multidimensional functional architectures. For much of the late 20th century, the field of affective science was dominated by the circumplex model of affect, which posited that all emotional experiences could be mapped along the primary axes of valence and arousal. However, contemporary evidence, most notab