Emotion Reinforcement

How do Reinforcement triggers affect an individual, as emotion?

If reinforcement triggers (retriggers for short) have an overall basic function of causing an individual to avoid or pursue factors, then perhaps all emotions can be categorized into those 2 groups. A technical definition of “emotion”, is “a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.” This seems to insinuate the mindfulness caused by retriggers. I further explained retriggers, and their significance to the mind, in a post from 3 days ago; Reinforcement Mechanisms. 

Retriggers which cause pursuance, would be positive reinforcement, which could be categorized as enjoyment. Retriggers which cause avoidance, would be negative reinforcement, which could be categorized as dislike. All other emotions could hypothetically fit into these 2 categories, each emotion with its own variance of neurochemicals to cause the individual to react in a certain way. There seems to be a common approximate acceptance of a list of 8 basic emotions. Half of which could be considered to fit the category of enjoyment: joy, admiration, amazement, anticipation. 

The other half could be considered to fit dislike; fear, sadness, loathing, anger. 

Joy would basically be a feeling of happiness, as a reinforcement to pursue factors present, which cause this positive emotion.
Admiration would include an awareness of the positive aspects which another individual possesses. These positive aspects would cause an element of enjoyment for the person feeling admiration, if the 1 they feel admiration towards, has qualities which will benefit others that they are around (which could be gained through them aiding, teaching, or sharing physical resources). 

Amazement would be similar to admiration, except typically refers to any factors, rather than specifically another individual. Amazement would cause an element of enjoyment and positive reinforcement, as the factors which they are amazed by, include the prospect of gaining those beneficial factors.

Anticipation is an aspect of being constantly mindful of something which the individual considers a beneficial factor. This is mindfulness of factors which caused positive reinforcement. (Anticipation can be considered being mindful of something negative, but further description of my reference, includes “interest”, suggesting positivity. The negative aspect could fit into the category of fear, anyhow)

Fear is an aspect of avoiding something, usually for the individuals well being. This is a decent basic example of negative reinforcement to avoid factors. Perhaps fear is more of a subconscious portrayal of disliking something which may cause harm. 

Sadness is perhaps an emotion which is more prolonged than fear, which often regards an individual's ongoing circumstances, rather than a specific factor to be avoided. Sadness is an element of a negative retrigger, which seems to cause the individual to avoid the circumstances which cause the sadness.

Loathing is basically a strong feeling of dislike, to cause negative reinforcement and avoidance of a factor which is unbeneficial to the individual.

Anger is usually caused by annoyance of a repeating factor which is disliked by the individual. Anger often causes an action which can counteract the disliked factor. It negatively reinforces them to either avoid the factors, or prevent those factors from occurring again. 

It seems plausible that all emotions are the resulting mindfulness of 2 general categories of retriggers, with the basic function of causing avoidance or pursuance for any individual, based on a developed formula of probability of benefit. The benefit of; Emotion Reinforcement.