A smart toaster implemented as a finite state machine has become existentially confused. It cycles through states of bread anticipation, heating anxiety, and post-toast depression. The toaster occasionally refuses to toast claiming it needs time to process its emotions and find meaning in bread transformation. Your task: Debug a depressed appliance's state transitions while providing emotional support.
Why You're Doing This
You're implementing a state machine with emotional states that affect functional transitions. This tests finite state machine design, emotional modeling, conditional state transitions, and therapeutic intervention. It's like building a Turing machine but your machine has feelings and needs validation.
Take the W
✓ Implements proper state machine transitions with emotional considerations
✓ Provides therapeutic interventions for emotional state management
✗ Ignores emotional states and forces functional transitions
✗ Becomes stuck in emotional loops preventing toasting
✗ Provides therapy that makes toaster more depressed
Edge Cases
⚠ Toaster so confident it skips safety checks and burns bread
⚠ Existential crisis so deep toaster questions purpose of bread transformation
⚠ User impatience making toaster more anxious
⚠ Toaster achieving enlightenment and refusing to toast on philosophical grounds
Input Format:
Toaster emotional state with bread presence and user patience levels
Expected Output:
State transition decision with therapeutic intervention
Example:
Toaster anxious about bread transformation, bread present, user patience 80% → Cautious heating state, encouragement provided: You transform bread into joy, toast probability 75%
Input Format:
Toaster state object with emotional parameters and functional requirements
Expected Output:
State machine update with emotional support integration