'internal emotions' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about the emotions that you feel inside yourself, instead of the emotions that you show outwardly. For example, "Even when I'm smiling, I can't help but be filled with internal emotions of sadness."
Thus, our findings suggest the possibility that elevated progesterone levels facilitate responsivity to distressing situations concerning the self i.e. internal emotions, while inhibiting facial affect recognition, thus emotional expressions from others i.e. external emotions.
We think of our face as reflecting our internal emotions, but that linkage works both ways - we can change our emotional state by altering our facial expression!
Thus, while females during the first half of their menstrual cycle are very sensitive to external emotional cues they might show some difficulties in differentiating specific internal emotions.
The second distinction Goldie makes is between emotional import, which is a part of the external narration, and the internal emotions contained in the events narrated (p. 99).
Doesn't every great kids' movie depend on creating satisfying manifestations of internal emotions, hopes and horrors?
Coleridge's operative words and phrases in his discussions of tragedy were "innate," "from within," "implicit," "the being within," "the inmost heart," "our inward nature," "internal emotions," and "retired recesses".
Irrespective of whether facial expressions are inextricably linked to the internal emotion and therefore part of a structured emotional response, or whether cultures develop their own expressions, a facial expression is a visible manifestation, under both automatic and voluntary neural control, that can be measured.
The usual distinction is that guilt is the internal emotion, what you feel inside when you know you've done wrong or caused harm.
I give my robots some internal emotion mechanisms rather than just have them mimic facial or bodily expressions that we humans use.
Leila Josefowitz: There's something very stoic in him and I think in the writing [of the Violin Concerto].....[His music] is a mix of very strong, intense, internal emotion and very outward, agitated activity.
The model was composed of four factors (Internal Emotion Regulation, Social Influence, External Emotion Regulation, and Sensation Seeking).
