Modeling the emotional state of an agent through fuzzy logic with reference to the geneva emotion wheel

The issue of accurately modeling human emotions in agents has been the subject of extensive debate for some decades. This debate, complicated as it is by constant psychological arguments about the nature of emotions and their affects on behaviour, has given rise to many different schools of thought within the greater, overarching subject of affective computing. Our work centres around a paraconsistent logic system rooted in fuzzy principles, its goal being to more accurately model the emotional state, and changes of the emotional state, through usage of an emotional circumplex. Within this paper we intend to outline our system for modelling emotional state and changes to emotional state. We shall include an outline of the psychological basis for our work, and discussion of primary prototyping of the proposed system.