Yeah AG, it makes sense. I guess I'm trying to figure out if you can _feel_ "sarcastic", or if "sarcastic" is a label that can only be applied to an action. I wonder the same about words/emotions/actions like "protective". Is it a word that describes an action, or one that describes the feeling that motivated the action?

It's much less helpful hair-splitting than the answer you gave, which I think answers a really useful question: What's the distinction between emotions that people feel and actions that people take?

I imagine the first question's issue comes up because I was watching people (TV characters) exhibit behaviors that I then tried to classify, rather than trying to describe my own internal state - where I'd know quite well if you could have a feeling like that!

So my follow-up question above may be as much an artifact (if that makes sense) of my process for coming up with words as a reasonable concern with the difference between words that describe emotions and words that describe actions.

[I've also noticed that my list suffers from being filled with words that tend to get used to describe _other people's_ feelings, rather than your own. I think there's a pretty clear distinction here, but I can't figure out what the difference is other than on a case-by-case basis. Like, who would ever say _they_ were feeling "chagrin"? Or "indignation"? Seems like we'd say "embarrassed" and "upset"/"angry"/"enraged", rather.]