diff --git a/src/app/api/admin/backups/[id]/restore/route.ts b/src/app/api/admin/backups/[id]/restore/route.ts
index 8ede74cac..a6d393133 100644
--- a/src/app/api/admin/backups/[id]/restore/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/admin/backups/[id]/restore/route.ts
@@ -774,6 +774,15 @@ const handler = apiHandler(
                 date: entry.date,
                 mood: entry.mood,
                 score: entry.score,
+                // The five level-A values. `?? null` rather than a derivation:
+                // a file that carries none is a file from before they existed,
+                // and filling them in here would put a number the person never
+                // gave into a restored row and call it their answer.
+                moodA1: entry.a1 ?? null,
+                stressA2: entry.a2 ?? null,
+                energyA3: entry.a3 ?? null,
+                connectionA4: entry.a4 ?? null,
+                stabilityA5: entry.a5 ?? null,
                 tags: entry.tags ?? null,
                 // The note comes back the way every other dual-column note
                 // does: ciphertext verbatim when the file carries it, and a
diff --git a/src/lib/__tests__/export.test.ts b/src/lib/__tests__/export.test.ts
index c4a2a7ef1..8fcb32467 100644
--- a/src/lib/__tests__/export.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/__tests__/export.test.ts
@@ -400,3 +400,51 @@ describe("formatMoodEntriesForExport with userTz", () => {
     expect(result[0].loggedAt).toBe("2026-05-15T14:30:00-04:00");
   });
 });
+
+describe("formatMoodEntriesForExport level-A columns", () => {
+  const base = {
+    date: "2026-05-15",
+    mood: "OKAY",
+    score: 3,
+    tags: null,
+    source: "MANUAL",
+    moodLoggedAt: new Date("2026-05-15T18:30:00Z"),
+  };
+
+  it("appends the five values without moving an existing column", () => {
+    const csv = toCSV(
+      formatMoodEntriesForExport([
+        { ...base, moodA1: 4, stressA2: 9, energyA3: 0 },
+      ]),
+    );
+    const [header, row] = csv.split("\n");
+    // The pre-existing columns keep their order and their positions. Somebody's
+    // spreadsheet has a formula pointed at column D.
+    expect(header).toBe(
+      "date,mood,score,tags,note,source,loggedAt,a1,a2,a3,a4,a5",
+    );
+    expect(row.split(",").slice(0, 3)).toEqual(["2026-05-15", "OKAY", "3"]);
+  });
+
+  it("writes an empty cell for an unanswered value and a zero for a zero", () => {
+    const csv = toCSV(
+      formatMoodEntriesForExport([
+        { ...base, moodA1: 4, stressA2: 9, energyA3: 0 },
+      ]),
+    );
+    const cells = csv.split("\n")[1].split(",");
+    // a1, a2, a3, a4, a5 — the last two were never answered.
+    expect(cells.slice(-5)).toEqual(["4", "9", "0", "", ""]);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves every level-A cell empty for an entry written before the columns", () => {
+    const csv = toCSV(formatMoodEntriesForExport([base]));
+    expect(csv.split("\n")[1].split(",").slice(-5)).toEqual([
+      "",
+      "",
+      "",
+      "",
+      "",
+    ]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/export.ts b/src/lib/export.ts
index 5ed09e5a5..0dd083bab 100644
--- a/src/lib/export.ts
+++ b/src/lib/export.ts
@@ -336,6 +336,12 @@ export function formatMoodEntriesForExport(
     note?: string | null;
     source: string;
     moodLoggedAt: Date;
+    /** The five level-A values, absent on entries written before they existed. */
+    moodA1?: number | null;
+    stressA2?: number | null;
+    energyA3?: number | null;
+    connectionA4?: number | null;
+    stabilityA5?: number | null;
   }>,
   userTz?: string,
 ): ExportableRecord[] {
@@ -347,5 +353,14 @@ export function formatMoodEntriesForExport(
     note: e.note ?? "",
     source: e.source,
     loggedAt: formatTimestamp(e.moodLoggedAt, userTz),
+    // Appended after the existing columns rather than slotted in beside
+    // `score`, because this file lands in somebody's spreadsheet and a column
+    // that moves breaks every formula pointed at it. An unanswered value is an
+    // empty cell, not a zero: zero is a real answer on this scale.
+    a1: e.moodA1 ?? "",
+    a2: e.stressA2 ?? "",
+    a3: e.energyA3 ?? "",
+    a4: e.connectionA4 ?? "",
+    a5: e.stabilityA5 ?? "",
   }));
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/export/full-backup-payload.ts b/src/lib/export/full-backup-payload.ts
index 9f4506de5..0d3375c99 100644
--- a/src/lib/export/full-backup-payload.ts
+++ b/src/lib/export/full-backup-payload.ts
@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ const MOOD_ENTRY_BACKUP_SELECT = {
   date: true,
   mood: true,
   score: true,
+  moodA1: true,
+  stressA2: true,
+  energyA3: true,
+  connectionA4: true,
+  stabilityA5: true,
   tags: true,
   note: true,
   noteEncrypted: true,
@@ -480,6 +485,15 @@ export async function buildFullBackupPayload(
         date: moodEntry.date,
         mood: moodEntry.mood,
         score: moodEntry.score,
+        // The five level-A values, under the keys the write path takes. Both
+        // arms carry them: they are the entry's own answers, not a storage
+        // detail, and a portable export that dropped them would hand back a
+        // file describing the day less well than the row it came from.
+        a1: moodEntry.moodA1,
+        a2: moodEntry.stressA2,
+        a3: moodEntry.energyA3,
+        a4: moodEntry.connectionA4,
+        a5: moodEntry.stabilityA5,
         tags: moodEntry.tags,
         source: moodEntry.source,
         loggedAt: moodEntry.moodLoggedAt.toISOString(),
diff --git a/src/lib/validations/backup.ts b/src/lib/validations/backup.ts
index 3f1a981e1..374847ed1 100644
--- a/src/lib/validations/backup.ts
+++ b/src/lib/validations/backup.ts
@@ -254,6 +254,15 @@ const moodEntrySchema = z
     date: z.string().min(1),
     mood: z.string().min(1),
     score: z.number().int().min(0).max(10),
+    // The five level-A values. Optional and nullable: a file written before
+    // they existed carries none, and an entry whose sliders were never touched
+    // carries nulls. Absent restores as NULL, never as a defaulted midpoint —
+    // a restore that invents an answer is worse than one that admits none.
+    a1: z.number().int().min(0).max(10).nullable().optional(),
+    a2: z.number().int().min(0).max(10).nullable().optional(),
+    a3: z.number().int().min(0).max(10).nullable().optional(),
+    a4: z.number().int().min(0).max(10).nullable().optional(),
+    a5: z.number().int().min(0).max(10).nullable().optional(),
     tags: moodEntryTagsSchema,
     // The free text, in both storage shapes. A portable export carries the
     // decrypted `note`; a disaster-recovery file carries `noteEncrypted` plus
diff --git a/tests/integration/mood-backup-round-trip.test.ts b/tests/integration/mood-backup-round-trip.test.ts
index 42c43e088..677b40f6d 100644
--- a/tests/integration/mood-backup-round-trip.test.ts
+++ b/tests/integration/mood-backup-round-trip.test.ts
@@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ describe("mood backup round trip", () => {
         date: "2026-07-19",
         mood: "OKAY",
         score: 3,
+        // All five level-A values, and deliberately not the ones the label
+        // would derive: a restore that re-derived them instead of carrying
+        // them would look right on this row and be wrong on every row where
+        // the person disagreed with their own five-point pick.
+        moodA1: 4,
+        stressA2: 9,
+        energyA3: 2,
+        connectionA4: 6,
+        stabilityA5: 0,
         tags: JSON.stringify(["free-text-tag"]),
         note: null,
         noteEncrypted: encryptNote(NOTE),
@@ -268,6 +277,14 @@ describe("mood backup round trip", () => {
     expect(restored.updatedAt).toEqual(UPDATED_AT);
     expect(restored.date).toBe("2026-07-19");
     expect(restored.score).toBe(3);
+    // Each of the five asserted by value. Zero is included on purpose: it is a
+    // real answer on this scale, and a carrier that treated it as absence
+    // would round-trip it as NULL and pass a truthiness check.
+    expect(restored.moodA1).toBe(4);
+    expect(restored.stressA2).toBe(9);
+    expect(restored.energyA3).toBe(2);
+    expect(restored.connectionA4).toBe(6);
+    expect(restored.stabilityA5).toBe(0);
     expect(restored.tags).toBe(JSON.stringify(["free-text-tag"]));
     expect(restored.deletedAt).toBeNull();
 
@@ -276,6 +293,11 @@ describe("mood backup round trip", () => {
     });
     expect(tombstone.deletedAt).toEqual(DELETED_AT);
     expect(tombstone.syncVersion).toBe(5);
+    // The tombstone was written without level-A values and comes back without
+    // them. A restore filling these in would put an answer nobody gave into a
+    // row the person had already deleted.
+    expect(tombstone.moodA1).toBeNull();
+    expect(tombstone.stressA2).toBeNull();
 
     const links = await prisma.moodEntryTagLink.findMany({
       where: { moodEntryId: "mood-rt-entry" },
@@ -338,6 +360,7 @@ describe("mood backup round trip", () => {
     expect(parsed.moodEntries[0].structuredTags).toEqual([]);
     expect(parsed.moodEntries[0].tz).toBeUndefined();
     expect(parsed.moodEntries[0].syncVersion).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(parsed.moodEntries[0].a1).toBeUndefined();
 
     const response = await restoreFromPayload(
       prisma,
@@ -360,6 +383,14 @@ describe("mood backup round trip", () => {
     expect(restored.score).toBe(4);
     expect(restored.externalId).toBe("moodlog-legacy");
     expect(restored.deletedAt).toBeNull();
+    // A file from before these columns carries no answer for them, and the
+    // restore does not invent one. `GUT` would derive to 7; a restore that
+    // derived instead of carrying would write a number this file never held.
+    expect(restored.moodA1).toBeNull();
+    expect(restored.stressA2).toBeNull();
+    expect(restored.energyA3).toBeNull();
+    expect(restored.connectionA4).toBeNull();
+    expect(restored.stabilityA5).toBeNull();
 
     const links = await prisma.moodEntryTagLink.findMany({
       where: { moodEntryId: "mood-rt-legacy" },