Wow, this was great! I hope you find inspiration to expand on this outside the scope of the jam. Some ideas: Have festering negative thoughts that have more hit points. Am I an individual person or various visitors? (Oh, I guess Iโm Nova). There can be some reward or focus on the positive thoughts. Perhaps collect enough positive thoughts they then compress into a delightful โpearl like thoughtโ and reward the player with story progression on that success or a zen level with a bubbly soundtrack.
Ideaโs aside, you really nailed this Jams concept๐