I was thinking about the range of human emotions and checked out this Wikipedia article about the contrasting and categorization of emotions. I was intrigued by Robert Plutchik's wheel of emotion, since it has "basic" emotions as building blocks and then the more complicated "feeling" these emotions produced.
Examples: basics anticipation and joy combine to form optimism. basics surprise and sadness combine to form disapproval. optimism and disapproval are viewed as opposites on this wheel.
With most things, this is more interesting than it is fully accurate especially with a subject as seemingly personal and open to interpretation as emotion.
My question is: what's the most complicated emotion or mix of emotions you have ever experienced? Describe the experience before, during, and after it happened.