Appendix: Symbol Reference

$\valence$

Valence: gradient alignment on viability manifold

$\arousal$

Arousal: rate of belief/state update

$\intinfo$

Integration: irreducibility under partition

$\effrank$

Effective rank: distribution of active degrees of freedom

$\mathcal{CF}$

Counterfactual weight: resources on non-actual trajectories

$\mathcal{SM}$

Self-model salience: degree of self-focus

$\mathbf{a}$

Affect state vector: $(\valence, \arousal, \intinfo, \effrank, \mathcal{CF}, \mathcal{SM})$

$\viable$

Viability manifold: region of sustainable states

$\worldmodel$

World model: predictive model of environment

$\selfmodel$

Self-model: component of world model representing self

$B_{\text{exist}}$

Existential burden: cost of maintaining self-reference

$\mathcal{I}$

Affect intervention: practice or technology that shifts affect distribution

$\mathcal{F}$

Flourishing score: weighted aggregate of affect dimensions