My friend worked for several years in undergrad on whether or not bees had individual personalities (this was her simplified description to me). So I asked her

My friend worked for several years in undergrad on whether or not bees had individual personalities (this was her simplified description to me). So I asked her whether bees did have individual personalities, and her response was a flat "Nope". The "emotions" that they're describing here are really more like states in a finite state machine. Calling them emotions obfuscates the science. However, there might be a fun angle to building a brain out of increasingly complex emotional FSMs.