{
  "id": "read-the-room.awareness",
  "term": "read the room",
  "sense": "awareness",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "social",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A model that detects when the self-model of a group no longer matches the actual state of the group, indicating trust has drifted outside its window.",
  "folk_gloss": "to understand the mood or atmosphere of a situation.",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "model.representation",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "trust.reliance",
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless"
    ],
    "interaction": "social",
    "novel_properties": [
      "group-awareness",
      "implicit-trust"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "read the room",
    "reading the room"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — model and trust"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read-the-room.awareness"
}