Emotion is a bodily sensory response, not an abstract label.

Evidence

But to evoke those feelings, it is often necessary to portray sensory details that the reader may have experienced. Simply labeling a character’s emotion as love or hatred will have little effect, for such abstraction operates on a vague, intellectual level, whereas emotion is the body’s physical reaction to information the senses receive. The great Russian director Konstantin Stanislavski, originator of realistic “Method” acting, urged his students to abandon the grand emotive postures of the nineteenth-century stage in favor of emotions evoked by the actor’s recollection of sensory details connected with a personal past trauma. By recalling such details as the tingling of fingertips, the smell of singed hair, and the tensing of calf muscles, an emotion such as anger might naturally be induced within the actor’s body. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 121

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier reading on embodiment and to Method acting scholarship. — connects to: Focused attention on a single tone can shift emotional and bodily state — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 47; Feelings accumulate from experience while emotions are immediate survival reactions — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 244; Natural silence is a positive presence felt in the body — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 26 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Defines emotion as physical sensory reaction, grounding a key fiction principle.

Broader Connections

• Feelings accumulate from experience while emotions are immediate survival reactions #expands (0.60) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 244
• Focused attention on a single tone can shift emotional and bodily state #corroborates (0.55) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 47
• Natural silence is a positive presence felt in the body #exemplifies (0.50) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 26