Emotion

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Certain circumstances can evoke a wide range of emotions, both negative and positive, affecting dwarves' stress levels. Emotional reactions can result from immediate experience, or from revisiting a long-term memory, and are affected by dwarves' personalities and values, resulting in different reactions to the same circumstances. Recent emotions experienced by dwarves (listed along with their circumstance pairs) are listed in the Thoughts and Preferences screen.

Different thoughts can have different "strength", denoting the effect the emotion has on a dwarf's stress levels (negative numbers reduce stress, while positive numbers increase it) and depends on time elapsed and dwarven personality. This thought strength is then divided by the 'Divider' numbers given in the table. The thought strength is loosely color-coded, with positive thoughts being in blue or green and strong negative thoughts being in red or yellow. Brown thoughts are mildly to moderately negative, and purple and grey ones are pretty much neutral.

Note that positive thoughts have a negative number, as they reduce stress. Numbers closer to 1 or -1 have the strongest effect on stress.

Many examples of a dwarf feeling emotions are as follows:

Syndromes can cause a creature to feel particular emotions using the CE_FEEL_EMOTION tag. When a creature's stress level is high enough, certain negative emotions may create additional effects. These emotions will display a string in the dwarf's General status screen.

A total of 170 emotions are defined within the code, but only 130 of them are currently implemented:

ID	Emotion	Divider	Additional text / Effects at high stress
-1	Anything	0
0	Acceptance	-8
1	Adoration	-1
2	Affection	-2
3	Agitation	4
4	Aggravation	4
5	Agony	1	"Writhing in agony!"
6	Alarm	4
7	Alienation	8
8	Amazement	0
9	Ambivalence	0
10	Amusement	-4
11	Anger	2
12	Angst	1	"In existential crisis!" Creature will lie on the ground, pondering the meaning of life, and will not move.
13	Anguish	1	"Anguished!" Creature will lie on the ground crying and will not move.
14	Annoyance	8
16	Anxiety	4
17	Apathy	0
19	Arousal	-8
20	Astonishment	0
22	Aversion	4
23	Awe	0
24	Bitterness	2
25	Bliss	-1
26	Boredom	8
27	Caring	-2
29	Confusion	8
30	Contempt	4
31	Contentment	-8
34	Defeat	2
35	Dejection	4
36	Delight	-1
39	Despair	1
40	Disappointment	8
41	Disgust	4
42	Disillusionment	8
43	Dislike	8
44	Dismay	2
45	Displeasure	8
46	Distress	2
47	Doubt	8
49	Eagerness	-4
51	Elation	-2
52	Embarrassment	8
53	Empathy	-2
54	Emptiness	4
55	Enjoyment	-8
57	Enthusiasm	-8
59	Euphoria	-1
60	Exasperation	8
61	Excitement	-2
62	Exhilaration	-2
63	Expectancy	-8
64	Fear	1	"Experiencing mortal fear!"
65	Ferocity	2
66	Fondness	-8
67	Freedom	-4
68	Fright	2
69	Frustration	8
71	Gaiety	-2
73	Glee	-2
74	Gloom	4
75	Glumness	8
76	Gratitude	-4
78	Grief	2
79	Grim Satisfaction	0
80	Grouchiness	8
81	Grumpiness	8
82	Guilt	4
83	Happiness	-2
84	Hatred	2
86	Hope	-2
87	Hopelessness	2
88	Horror	1	"Overwhelmed by horror!"
90	Humiliation	4
95	Insult	4
96	Interest	-8
97	Irritation	8
98	Isolation	4
100	Jolliness	-4
101	Joviality	-2
102	Joy	-1
103	Jubilation	-1
104	Loathing	2
105	Loneliness	4
107	Love	-1
109	Lust	-8
111	Misery	1	"Wallowing in misery!" Creature will lie on the ground crying and will not move.
112	Mortification	2
114	Nervousness	8
115	Nostalgia	-8
116	Optimism	-4
117	Outrage	2
118	Panic	1
119	Patience	-8
120	Passion	-2
121	Pessimism	8
123	Pleasure	-4
124	Pride	-4
125	Rage	1	"Enraged at all enemies!" Causes Enraged.
126	Rapture	-1
127	Rejection	4
128	Relief	-2
129	Regret	8
130	Remorse	4
131	Repentance	-2
132	Resentment	8
134	Righteous Indignation	8
135	Sadness	4
136	Satisfaction	-8
138	Self Pity	8
140	Servile	0
141	Shaken	1	"Shaken to the core!"
142	Shame	4
143	Shock	1	"In emotional shock!"
148	Suspicion	8
149	Sympathy	-8
150	Tenderness	-2
152	Terror	1	"Overcome by terror!" Creature will flee from enemies. Default behavior when experiencing high stress in combat.
153	Thrill	-2
155	Triumph	-2
156	Uneasiness	8
157	Unhappiness	4
158	Vengefulness	4
160	Wonder	-8
161	Worry	8
162	Wrath	1
163	Zeal	-4
167	Restless	8
168	Admiration	-8