{
  "id": "feel-good-factor.rising",
  "term": "feel-good factor",
  "sense": "rising",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "Morale read as rising across the members of a collective self as their own parameters move away from walls, which then moves how they read those who govern.",
  "folk_gloss": "a widespread sense of well-being and optimism, especially about the economy",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "morale.collective",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "read.information",
      "rise.movement",
      "across.spatial",
      "member.social",
      "parameter.condition",
      "motion.movement",
      "away.spatial",
      "wall.range-end",
      "time.dimension",
      "government.administrative"
    ],
    "interaction": "Each member's own widening window is read as the group's, and the group's read attaches to whoever sets its walls; the credit follows the feeling, not a model of cause.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a private read that becomes a public verdict",
      "credit assigned by mood"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "British commentators in the mid-1990s debated why an economic recovery was not producing a feel-good factor among voters.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "consumer-confidence.measured",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "consumer confidence is the measured number; the feel-good factor is the diffuse, political reading"
    },
    {
      "id": "relief.emergent",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "relief is a window widening after narrowing; the feel-good factor is that widening shared and credited"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "feel good factor",
    "feelgood factor"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-feel-good-factor.rising"
}