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** In the play version, Leo gets that same feeling or similar after his first encounter with sexy foreigner Ulla. In this case, Max calls it an 'erection'. Or in some modern performances, 'swine flu'.

* While Yuko of ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' knows she should be having fun during the summer festival she just can't feel it until Momo and Mikan meet up with her. The idea she might be lonely never occurred to her, probably because she most of her life as an IllGirl, only returning to normal health for a few months.

** And then there's the song that would be the TropeNamer if the phrase wasn't OlderThanTelevision. For humor, the description of the mutual feeling Elphaba and Galinda have for each other is described to imply LesYay before revealing what it really is: Loathing.

* Horribly {{deconstructed}} in ''LightNovel/FateZero''. Kotomine Kirei has been trying to find something that can give him true happiness for years. Despite being a priest, he doesn't find it in doing good. Despite being TheAce, he feels no pride. Despite being a married man, he doesn't find it in... you know[[note]]His wife eventually committed suicide, which made his only daughter thoroughly hate him. He doesn't see this as a loss[[/note]]. He finally finds something that makes him feel, it being ''absolutely evil''.

For specific types of feelings that can evoke this, see WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove and IsThisWhatAngerFeelsLike

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse: While to an outside observer it's pretty clear that Amity [[spoiler:is in love with Luz]], the Season 2 episode "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" shows that Amity herself isn't really aware of what her feelings are, or at the very least doesn't understand why they are so intense.

* Happens to Mandy in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' when she experiences a crush on a newcomer to town. Frustrated by the new feeling, she implores Grim to cut her heart out with his scythe but the two come up with something a lot more clever: Using an oddly more literal interpretation of the words "Break The Cutie".

*** [[FoeYay Loathing]], [[BelligerentSexualTension eh]]? WordOfGod has [[WordOfGay said]]..

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'''

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12978919/26/One-Punch-Man-Hero-s-Harem One Punch Man: Hero's Harem]]'', Saitama has a mildly erotic dream about the women in his life and finds himself feeling arousal for the first time in so long that he doesn't recognize the feeling any more.

*** When he climbs the stairs one very steamy night to ascertain the doctor's health, he brushes it off as seeking information about potential need for quarantine and deduces nothing from his legs suddenly deciding to take the steps two at a time. After finding out Watson is short on funds, he muses that he hopes he's not planning to leave, because he'd never find another so admirably suited roommate.

** ''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.

* ''Literature/FatherBrown'': In ''The Wrong Shape'', the culprit is a TotalitarianUtilitarian who murders his victim because it was the best course of action to everyone involved (even the victim). And then he writes a confession to Father Brown:

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' novel ''The Way to the Stars'', Sylvia Tilly has long by smothered by the unrealistic expectations and demands of her parents and guardians, and especially her [[MyBelovedSmother mother]], Federation diplomat Siobhan Tilly, who responds to even the most glowing reports with comments like "I think we can see that there are some emerging issues." Finally, Tilly, fed up, runs away from the boarding school she was sent to and, using the engineering skills that have long been ignored by her family, fakes an identification, thwarts the school's advanced security and secures passage on a non-aligned vessel. Once aboard, she begins secretly fixing the ship's antiquated systems. As she realizes that she is no longer on a schedule, no pressure on her, "and best of all, no relatives talking all the time about your grades and your ''emerging issues''," she feels light-hearted. And the she realizes...

* ''Literature/MarketOfMonsters'' depicts 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.

** ''Cold Steel 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.

* 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.

* Arcueid in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' after Shiki fails to show up for their meeting. She's incredibly angry because to her it feels like she got stood up on a date. After she calms down, she realizes its not like her to get so upset and asks Shiki why he thinks she got so angry. She's not used to feeling emotion towards people and will be vaguely accepting of the idea that she's selfish or that she hates him.

* In ''VisualNovel/PrincessEvangile'', there's Tamie Nogi in her route. Having practically been MarriedToTheJob during her stay in Vincennes Academy thus far, she starts to feel affection towards Masaya after spending an entire week traveling around Japan with him. For the second half of the route's first chapter, she's practically wondering why she's beginning to see him differently than how she normally does.

** At the end of "Heartbreak Hotel", when Marge makes a fool of herself and Homer receives pity from others (instead of the other way around like always), he gets a warm rise from being the pitied.

* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' when a human-like robot of Jack's design named Dude-Bot has one of the Shen Gong Wu in its make--specifically [[AnimatingArtifact the Heart]] [[HeartDrive of Jong]]. At first, he is thrilled at all the new feelings he experiences, but keeps trying to make friends with his creator and the Xiaolin Dragons. The constant rejection and attacks makes him feel hurt (even if he can effortlessly counterattack), causing him to glitch and emit [[TearsFromAStone streams of tears]]. He promptly declares that he doesn't like feeling human, [[DrivenToSuicide rips the heart out of his metallic chest and discards it listlessly, falling over deactivated a moment later.]]

Compare NotSoStoic.

* In ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity,'' the protagonist Langa is [[ObliviousToLove oblivious as to why]] his heart beats so loudly when he skates, and why it stops doing so when his best friend Reki is no longer at his side, [[spoiler:having cut him out of his life]].

* Giselle's first experience with anger in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''.

* In ''Fanfic/CatRa'', thanks to an abusive childhood with only one person she could remotely call a friend, Catra is left frequently unable to properly articulate any emotion outside anger and frustration. Which, when mixed with her standoffish attitude, makes it difficult for even those close to her to get an accurate read on her feelings. For example, one chapter has Frosta realize that Catra's clumsily explaining her relationship with everyone in the Alliance as being "annoying but tolerable" is the only way Catra is capable of describing the idea of friendship.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', after Elsa conjures an ice boat sending Anna and Olaf away, Olaf comments that he's sensing anger. As it turns out, it's his own anger, which he has trouble recognizing and understanding at first.

* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': As demonstrated by the page pic, Tycho's tainted, twisted, mutant soul severely limits the situations in which he can feel things like joy.
* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', Ed feels ph34r for the first time in [[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/819 this strip.]] Cue manic laughter.
* ''Webcomic/TheParkingLotIsFull'' plays with this one, with a woman who is suddenly struck with an emotion no one has ever felt before.