What people call emotions, I would say are actually two things, "feelings" and "attitudes." The emotion of feeling or being sad causes a kinesthetic experience. The attitude of being or something making you sad causes you to avoid that thing, and to avoid that thing from happening.

The feeling of love is a warm kinesthetic experience. The attitude of love is at least a degree of what the OP was talking about.

Remember, thoughts happen on a chemical level, too. Our brains are made out of matter