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* Gob in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' is puzzled to feel something that he can't identify as either "envy" or "hungry", when coming to terms with the fact that [[spoiler:Steve Holt is his son.]]
-->'''Michael:''' Could it be love?\\

* ''VisualNovel/{{Grisaia No Kajitsu}}'': When Sachi begins to develop an attraction to Yuuji, she doesn’t really get why she’s acting differently around him. Nor any of the other complex emotions she’s locked away.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Cell is [[ThisCannotBe absolutely shocked]] when Super Saiyan 2 Gohan beats him up and overpowers him, realizing he's [[HorrifyingTheHorror actually feeling fear for the first time]]. Best displayed in the ''[[Anime/DragonBallKai Kai]]'' dub.

* Valjean and Javert both experience this in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', when they are given kindness that they feel they do not deserve (Valjean is spared arrest by a Bishop from whom he stole, and Javert has his life spared by Valjean, the man he has supposedly hunted for years). It's notable that the way they react is quite different: Valjean vows to atone for his sins and spends the rest of the show doing good, and as for Javert, well, the song it happens in is called "Javert's [[spoiler:Suicide]]" for a reason.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' PlayedForLaughs, if you talk to Chadley, the Shinra materia researcher and secret helper to your party when Cloud is in his dress, he will comment, "Forgive me, miss, but the way you're staring at me is rather... O-oh goodness. I'm experiencing an emotional response." If you speak to him again, he'll ask "What is this emotional response...?". [[spoiler:It's also Foreshadowing his [[{{Cyborg}} artificial nature]]]]. It's called Love, Chadley.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' PlayedForLaughs, if you talk to Chadley, the Shinra materia researcher and secret helper to your party when Cloud is in his dress, he will comment, "Forgive me, miss, but the way you're staring at me is rather... O-oh goodness. I'm experiencing an emotional response." If you speak to him again, he'll ask "What is this emotional response...?". [[spoiler:It's also Foreshadowing his [[{Cyborg} artificial nature]]]]. It's called Love, Chadley.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' PlayedForLaughs, if you talk to Chadley, the Shinra materia researcher and secret helper to your party when Cloud is in his dress, he will comment, "Forgive me, miss, but the way you're staring at me is rather... O-oh goodness. I'm experiencing an emotional response." If you speak to him again, he'll ask "What is this emotional response...?". [[spoiler:It's also Foreshadowing his [[Cyborg artificial nature]]]]. It's called Love, Chadley.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' PlayedForLaugh, if you talk to Chadley, the Shinra materia researcher and secret helper to your party when Cloud is in his dress, he will comment, "Forgive me, miss, but the way you're staring at me is rather... O-oh goodness. I'm experiencing an emotional response." If you speak to him again, he'll ask "What is this emotional response...?". It's called Love, Chadley.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', if you talk to Chadley, the Shinra materia researcher and secret helper to your party when Cloud is in his dress, he will comment, "Forgive me, miss, but the way you're staring at me is rather... O-oh goodness. I'm experiencing an emotional response." If you speak to him again, he'll ask "What is this emotional response...?"

-->'''Vivi''': I was really confused when my grandpa died. He told me, 'Vivi, no need be sad.' So I told myself, I can't be sad. That's why I felt confused again when I heard that everyone was stopping around him. I don't know what to do or what to feel... But when I saw Dagger crying when her mom died, I wasn't confused anymore. I was sad.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'', Altina Orion [[spoiler:is a humonculus created by the Black Workshop]] and has trouble understanding certain feelings, such as the concern she feels for her classmates, when it's only been her remit before to protect Rean.

* ''Manga/HappySugarLife'' have [[Yandere Satou]] feeling jealousy. After realizing Asahi knows Shio, she impulsively tries to kill him, [[PragmaticVillainy stopping in the last second only when it hits her that she won't get away with murdering someone in her own workplace]]. She is very confused by her own actions, as she is usually more self-controlled and pragmatic. It takes a while for her to realize she was feeling jealousy.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded'', the Data-Sora feels sad when he has to say good-bye to the others at the end and fade back into the data, but doesn't recognize it at first because he hasn't before any had any cause to really feel truly sad on his journey. He asks if it's another glitch, but Mickey tells him that this is just what good-byes feel like.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', the black mages are originally created as automatons by Kuja, their sole purpose to wage war. They begin to gain sentience and flee to the Black Mage Village, but have trouble processing their feelings about the death and destruction they've taken part in, the "stopping" of their comrades, and other feelings such as simple joy at the wonders of nature around them, such as a baby chocobo. Your party member Vivi also struggles with such feelings, but eventually starts to come to an understanding.
-->'''Vivi''': I was really confused when my grandpa died. He told me, 'Vivi, no need be sad.' So I told myself, I can't be sad. That's why I felt confused again when I heard that everyone was stopping around him. I don't know what to do or what to feel... But when I saw Dagger crying when her mom died, I wasn't confused anymore. I was sad.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', if you talk to Chadley, the Shinra materia researcher and secret helper to your party when Cloud is in his dress, he will comment, "Forgive me, miss, but the way you're staring at me is rather... O-oh goodness. I'm experiencing an emotional response." If you speak to him again, he'll ask "What is this emotional response...?"

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': Alexis Rose is reluctant to accompany her boyfriend Ted on a trip to the Galapagos Islands because she fears that when she is there she will be ''thinking about my family.'' Ted replies that this is normal, and she reiterates that she will be ''there'' while her family is ''here'' and she will be ''thinking'' about them. He explains that it is called missing someone and it is perfectly normal.

* ''Fanfic/SimpleGifts'': Holmes doesn't initially pay any attention to Watson's sickness beyond cursory courtesy and annoyance when it disrupts his plans. However, over the Mrs. Hudson's holiday, he finds himself doing more and more things for the doctor without understanding why, implicitly because friendship is a new experience to him. It becomes especially evident when he notes a twinge in his chest as the delirious Watson grabs his hand for comfort and he wonders if it's a sign he's caught the same illness.

* In the full-length movie version of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrinch'', The Grinch has this reaction when the Who's song fills him with joy. He also suffers from what looks like a heart attack caused by his heart rapidly growing.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Plankton in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqhfLTsEeZg The Fun Song.]]

* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown''; when a humanlike robot steals one of the Shen Gong Wu. A heart. At first, he is thrilled at all the new feelings he experiences until someone insults him and he feels hurt. He promptly declares that he doesn't like feeling human, takes the heart out of his chest and discards it listlessly.

-->'''[[Creator/JimCarrey The Grinch:]]''' [[LargeHam HHHNNNNGGG! MAX! Help me! I'm... FEELING!]]

--->'''Gob:''' I have feelings for you.\\

* Gob in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' is puzzled to feel something that he can't identify as either 'envy' or 'hungry', when coming to terms with the fact that [[spoiler:Steve Holt is his son.]]

'''Gob:''' I know what an erection feels like, Michael! No, it's the opposite. It's... it's like my heart is getting hard.

--->'''Gob:''' I have feelings for you.
--->'''[[spoiler:Tony Wonder]]:''' I have feelings for you.
--->'''[[LemonyNarrator Narrator]]:''' [[FriendlessBackground The feeling was friendship, but neither had ever experienced it.]]

* ''Literature/MarketOfMonsters'' two people with traumatic, abusive pasts falling in love for the first time... without understanding what's happening. Nita truly doesn't know what it is she starts feeling when she realizes how similar Kovit's DarkAndTroubledPast is to hers, except that it's like empathy but not quite. She's had such little human interaction throughout her life, she doesn’t understand what it feels like to make a connection with someone. When she starts missing him after they separate, she feels "something intangible" when she remembers him whispering his e-mail address in her ear. Neither of these poor kids know what genuine "love" feels like, so they can't accurately identify it. When it looks like they're going their separate ways in ''Only Ashes Remain'', Nita sincerely struggles and fails to understand why they met up again in the first place, why they wanted to work together. She concludes they were "using" each other to feel better at a time when they were down, lost, and lonely and sees them finding solace in each other as a sign of being weak and messed up.