Or maybe rough, tough, brawling, hard driving, hard drinking - daring to ride any wild stallion. Or fun, full of life, ready to laugh. Or maudlin, crying in your beer, in the depths of despair. Or hungry for experience, ready to feel life in its broadest depths, wanting your soul to be stirred. These feelings can be translated directly into a genre.
Genres are simply the classifications of literature.
The broader classification includes drama, comedy and action-adventure. These are artificial lines and all genres can overlap. Drama often has comic moments. Action-adventure often has drama and comedy, etc. For example, horror and westerns are usually drama, but could be action-adventure, or even comedy.