Startled
Startled is a form of feeling surprised. It includes 2 specific feelings:
Shocked
The jolt of encountering something completely unexpected. Your frame of reference has been disrupted — you need a moment to recalibrate because reality just shifted.
Valence: -0.2 Arousal: +0.8
Dismayed
Surprise mixed with deep disappointment. Something unexpected happened, and it's bad — you feel the ground shifting under your feet toward something worse.
Valence: -0.4 Arousal: +0.5
Other types of surprised
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