{
  "id": "hope.emotional",
  "term": "hope",
  "sense": "emotional",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "hope",
  "domain": "emotion",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a self-model representing a currently closed window as reachable",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "model.representation",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "close.spatial",
      "self.personal"
    ],
    "interaction": "A self-model using spatial proximity and structural openness metaphors represents a parameter's future accessibility within a critical range, even when currently out of bounds.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "prospective reachability",
      "metaphorical projection of self",
      "temporal bridging of current closure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Malala Yousafzai continued her advocacy for girls' education after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, still transmits data from interstellar space despite diminishing power.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cuban dissidents organized the Ladies in White marches after the 2003 Black Spring arrests to demand prisoners' release.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "hope",
    "hoped",
    "hopes",
    "hoping"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Retained 'window.range' and 'windows.opening' for metaphorical structure of 'closed window'; added 'close.spatial' and 'self.personal' as foundational to the metaphor in context of self-modeling. Kept"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hope.emotional"
}