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General Intelligence :
It is important to note that the Emoter does not itself possess emotions, it merely models human emotions. The Emoter observes events in Working Memory and when appropriate it returns the emotion a human subject would feel if it were the intelligent agent, such as: TheHumanSubjectWouldFeel(happy,event1).
In other words, the Emoter serves as a "vicar" in place of a human subject, and it reports that particular subject's hypothesized emotions.
Also, it only reports its own subject's hypothesized emotions, but not other people's hypothesized emotions.
The ability to understand other people's emotions would be the result of knowledge about such matters. For example, a general rule stating the similarity of self-experienced and others-experienced emotions. Such a rule also has exceptions (eg variations in preferences).
Top-down saliency is provided by emotions attached to events.
For example, many human needs are related to social interactions (we seek affection, recognition, etc, from others). As a result, in many situations the presence of other human beings is a salient stimulus. Therefore, in a picture of a girl standing in a garden, and without special objectives, the girl will be judged more salient than the plants around her.
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