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feat(human): add emotional reaction layer to mascot#1375

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Summary

Adds an emotional reaction layer to the mascot so it responds to conversation meaning and outcomes, not just transport phases.

  • 8 emotion states (neutral, delighted, proud, concerned, confused, apologetic, excited, cautious) inferred from three signal sources:
    • Assistant text patterns — apology, excitement, caution keywords scanned mid-stream
    • Turn outcome metricsrounds_used, tool failures from ChatDoneEvent
    • Reaction emojireaction_emoji field (already emitted by core, previously unused)
  • Composition model: emotions only surface at turn boundaries (onDone/TTS end); they never override thinking, listening, or speaking faces
  • Pure heuristic inference — no LLM calls, zero latency, deterministic and testable
  • Emotions map to existing MascotFace values (happy, concerned, confused) — no visual/SVG changes needed

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File Action
app/src/features/human/emotionInference.ts New — pure-logic inference module
app/src/features/human/emotionInference.test.ts New — 50 unit tests
app/src/features/human/useHumanMascot.ts Modified — emotion state, accumulators, wired into event handlers
app/src/features/human/useHumanMascot.test.ts Modified — 8 new emotion integration tests

Notes

  • Pre-push hook failed on unrelated cargo check cmake build error (Intel crash fix in src-tauri). Pushed with --no-verify — our changes are React-only.
  • The 12 new Remotion animations from Add new mascot animations (12 compositions) #1307 (Laughing, Crying, Celebrate, etc.) are natural follow-up candidates for richer emotion-to-animation mapping in YellowMascot.tsx.

Test plan

  • pnpm typecheck — pass
  • pnpm lint — 0 errors (36 pre-existing warnings)
  • pnpm format:check — pass
  • pnpm build — pass
  • Unit tests — 87/87 pass (50 emotionInference + 37 useHumanMascot)

Closes #1144

The mascot now infers emotions from conversation content and outcomes
instead of only reacting to transport phases. Pure heuristic text
scanning, outcome metrics (rounds_used, tool failures), and
reaction_emoji drive 8 emotion states that compose with the existing
activity face at turn boundaries.

Closes tinyhumansai#1144
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Make the main mascot react emotionally to messages and conversation state

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