Emotional Wheel: My Current or Latest Feelings

    According to this Wheel of Emotions that my wife brought home, I was identifying some negative emotions attached to sub-set words. What were they?

    Sad: guilty - Remorseful, ashamed

    Fear: insecure - Inferior, inadequate

    But on the flip side, the happiness that I feel looks like the following:

    Happy: intimate - playful, sensitive

    I am not sure as to the overall accuracy of this wheel of emotions. For instance, two thirds or more of the emotions are more negative. I am not sure if that is truly representative of who we are as a people, or as individuals.

    I found a different emotion wheel developed by Robert Plutchik in 1980, which has more positive representations of emotions. Perhaps that is more correct?

    I do not know. There are more emotions from the get-go in his, 8 to begin with instead of six.

    Other charts online have more emotions, too, which tend to have more positive feelings than the one that the local high school disseminated.

    Maybe I am being too critical or nitpicky. But then again, I have a few negative emotions going on because of current circumstances, but hopefully we can figure out what is the most accurate or appropriate to our own cases and emotional makeups.