Emotion Design 2

This is the continuance of my Emotion Engine design, what I have achieved today. Not an awful lot, but I think I might actually be ready to start structuring the Prolog!

Further Emotion Engine Design

Now comes the time of actually attempting to put the design into Prolog. It's been a while since I last used prolog, so this process is something of trial and error. I'm going attempt to keep a record of this process, though I'm likely to forget to record something.

In addition, following a recent lecture, it seemed that a further emotion was missing from the emotion engine - Desire. Desire drives us in many aspects of our lives, particularly in the early part of our development.

In fact, it seems to me that disgust is the opposite of desire, so the relate that way. I just need to make sure that when a negative disgust is activated (i.e. desire) this should have an effect on the emotional state.

An additional aspect that came to my mind following the above thought was "learning". In order to be an "intelligent" character, does my character need to include learning?

Emotions stand as this, given as Positive/Negative: [Happiness/Sadness], [Peace/Anger], [Love/Hate], [Friendliness/Hostility], [Desire/Disgust].

All emotions will be 0-100 scale, whereby 0 is the negative, 49-50 is neutral and 100 is positive

Right, new rules, including desire:

1. increased anger increases sadness (or decreases happiness)
2. increased sadness doesn't affect anger
3. increased happiness decreases anger
4. the character can be calm (i.e. not angry) without being happy
5. anger should wear off
6. consistently happy character should lead to increased love
7. consistently sad/angry character should lead to hate (anger should affect more than sadness)
8. certain words should evoke love/hate response
9. strong love/hate emotions should lead to increased emotional response elsewhere
* NB. Strong love increases happiness, reduces anger, reduces hostility, reduces disgust
Strong hate decreases happiness and increases hostility
10. love above a certain level should activate flirtatiousness (?)
11. hate above a certain level should activate hostility
12. disgust should reduce all other emotions, so that it takes priority

New rules:
13. love increases desire
14. hate reduces desire
15. happiness increases desire
16. sadness reduces desire (minimally, not enough to increase disgust as such)

Interesting thought:
Emotions usually have two dimensions, their degree (i.e. what emotion and how strong) and their focus. For instance, I love this, I hate that. So far this idea of focus isn't employed. This could probably be employed in the overlying C "brain" program - focus could be set by the input, the emotional response calculated (the highest emotional level wins).