crcb/emo_is huggingface dataset:
I had taken the responsibility to do something and I had  
prepared for it.  However I failed because of my timidity.  After  
three attempts I still could not adapt to the atmosphere and  
failed as before.  I felt imcompetent and felt that the others  
would think that I had not prepared for it.
Once I had an argument with my friends and I knew that I was  
right.  My friends went on arguing with me even though they did  
not know the right thing.
A relationship in which I had put my trust, broke up.  I was sad  
when I realized how easy it is to forget something that one had  
once regarded as great and significant.
Several years ago my mother died. She had been ill for a long  
time, but nevertheless her death came unexpectedly. I did not and  
I still do not want to believe that it is true.
I felt disgusted while studying for my applied psychology and  
mental testing papers in B.A.
A few months ago when I was teaching, I suddenly became very  
angry at the children and slapped some of them.
I had an exam and I had it well prepared.  I did the first part  
very well but did not know the second part.
Every time I was around this one person I would stick my foot in  
my mouth by being nasty. One time I accidently said something  
fairly cruel that was totally inappropriate.
I borrowed my friend's radio cassette and the plug cracked and  
some pieces broke off when the plug dropped off my hands.
I took a girl out once and discovered that she was going around  
with one of my close friends.
I found a baby opposum on the road and took it home and cared for  
it for a week. It had to be force-fed and carried in a fur pouch  
under my jersey. My father had the vet put it to sleep as he said  
they carried diseases.
When there was a fight at home and my father threatened to throw  
a chair on my brother.
I was sleeping alone in the house at night. A boy putting on a  
short only knocked at the window whispering that I should open  
for him.
When I didn't study for tests in High School. In particular   
remember a physics test. I didn't study because my friends talked  
me out of it and we did something else boring. I felt so helpless  
just being there - then guilt set in because I was very close to  
getting an A in the class.
A few days back a friend of mine poked me in the ribs for fun's  
sake, though I had warned him an infinite number of times that it  
really hurts me, he did it again.  I usually ignore this but this  
time I flared up for a split second and threatened to bash him  
up.  This is the latest incident when I lost my temper, though I  
felt very bad about it later.
In the student's union there was someone who took the photocopies  
of two large volumes.  I asked him to let me take a few, he refused  
it for an acceptable reason.
When I was feeding a premature baby (7 months), the baby chocked.  
This was when I was working in children's ward I thought I had  
killed the baby.
I saw a bag on the street and just then a stranger passed by.  I  
picked up the bag immediately and gave it to the stranger as I  
thought that it belonged to him.  But it was not his bag and I  
felt ashamed.
I played chess with my 12-year-old brother. I made a stupid  
mistake - and he won!
When a lady I was flirting with told all my class-mates that she  
was in second year while I was in first year, everyone laughed  
and started looking at me.
I felt anger at my roommate due to his habit of leaving dirty  
dishes in the sink and generally not cleaning after himself.
When I saw a lady putting on a pair of trousers, I felt it was a  
disguise according to Malawi culture.
At a cross-country race I wanted to take a short-cut (which is  
not allowed). I was caught and disqualified. All my friends had  
observed that.
When I worked at the life-saving service I was disgusted by a  
patient whose outward appearance was distasteful.
My husband falls ill and does not follow the doctor's advice on  
the treatment or the diet control.
A close relative of mine died in a serious car accident.  I was  
one of the first two people to see the corpse and I had to do it.  
 Before going in to see it I was afraid as it was the first time  
that I was seeing a corpse.
I happened to see the video-tape movie "This is America - Part  
one" at my friend's place.
I felt guilty when one of my secondary teacher left me while I  
was in Form three, he was the only one who showed love to me.
We had promised, with a friend of mine, to take our friends to a  
restaurant and after having looked for a place for hours without  
finding one, and not being helped by the others we had to give up  
the idea.
I was talking to a friend of mine about our parents and  
education.  I said something and then realized that I did not  
know my friend's parents, their motives and education.  I felt  
ashamed at having talked about something I did not know anything  
about.
I was emotionally happy when I was in love with the girl I had  
longed for.
I took my father's car to church one Sunday (I told them that's  
where I was going ) I decided instead to go for a drive to the  
beach - on the way I got a puncture.
When I qualified for form I.  I was one of the three pupils who  
qualified for form I that year.
Describing to mother how a hole in the wall had appeared while I  
was babysitting.
When they broke the artistic work of several weeks.  Changes were  
made and it was broken without permission, they had no right to  
do this.
I took the tram without paying. There were many people around me  
when I was caught by a controller. I felt ashamed but also angry.
I felt shame at the hurt I caused to my family especially my  
parent father, shame of hurting people emotionally. A misconceived  
self-blaming that didn't do me any good. Shame at being myself as  
I am.
When my 2 year old son climbed up and sat on the 7th floor  
balcony with his legs hanging out.  He was holding on tightly to  
the upper railing of the balcony but he could have easily lost  
his balance when he sat down.
One day, when I realized that I was alone, I felt fear of  
loneliness.
My sister was in coma for 3 months (due to a train accident). Now  
her brainfunctions are disturbed. She will never be able to walk  
and she can hardly talk.
During lectures, I sensed an unexpressed understanding with a boy  
I did not know.  We exchange glances ; I think he likes me, and I  
like him too.  Perhaps he has fallen in love with me .........
I was fearful when I realised that the relish was overcooked  
simply because I was not keen enough at checking whether there  
was still enough water in the relish or not, instead I was just  
playing with my friends.
When I was selected to start Form I at Chilumba Secondary School  
out of the 100 pupils I was among the 4 who were successful.  
Family History showed that I had done better than all my brothers  
who had passed after repeating for several times.
Argument with roommate over a lock he had put on kitchen cupboard  
without telling anyone.
My father died 4 years ago, 18 months after my mother died. I  
feld my sister was responsible for his death, in that she "hadn't  
loved him". I felt ashamed for myself, and for my family.
The death of my father made me feel quite guilty, because my  
attitude towards him had been cold and indifferent.
When I hadn't learnt my lesson and I asked the teacher to give me  
"a three" and he agreed but even he felt quite awkward.
NB: In Bulgarian schools "a three" is the second worst mark.
Disgust with myself for consistently making foolish errors in  
communicating with others (asking for 1/2 Kg of nuts when I only  
wanted 50 g).
When I passed the B.A exams and my parents allowed me to carry on  
my studies and do a M.A. , I was very happy.
After having at last finished my master's thesis, I felt great  
joy and relief.  I had been haunted by the thesis during the  
whole of my studies.
I feel this emotion very often when I try to express my feelings  
in public, because other people do not understand my reactions  
and think that I am silly.
When I tried to hide a fact from a person for irrelevant reasons  
and considered such an attitude childish.
When some unforgiving acquaintance dragged up an old and rather  
embarassing situation from my past.
I used to play with a group of classmates and I found out later  
that they were cheap in thought, behaviour and conduct - they  
would smoke, fight and speak foul language.  I thought that they  
destroyed the image of college students.
I went to bed with a girl and the next day she thought it was the  
start of something serious and I just thought it was fun and I  
told her I wasn't interested in starting a serious relationship.
Physically fighting with my girlfriend because she just walked  
out of a room of my friends and had pushed and cursed at me when  
I went to find her.
When I had to walk home from the bus-stop in a skirt that I had  
soiled.  It drew a lot of attention and they all seemed to want  
to see the blood stains.
When I was involved in a car accident last November, after the  
first fall of snow.  I lost control of the car and it spun round  
and landed on the opposite side of the road, on the hard  
shoulder.  It was stopped by a pole on top of a bank sloping down  
to a stream.
Seeing a friend "making love" to a high school girl. I  
accidentally was dragged into this room where the happenings had  
occurred. I was disgusted at the reality.
When the N.Z. rugby union announced that they would proceed with  
a rugby tour of South Africa.
The day I learnt that my girlfriend had been going around with  a  
close friend of mine.
On a holiday in France I made a walk in the woods all alone and  
very relaxed. Then a motorbike took me over and I saw the man  
watching all the time. Suddenly the man stood behing me and I ran  
away fast.
When I heard that my girlfriend was getting married to another  
person, I felt very sad.  That day I did not eat anything and  
kept thinking of her all day long.
This was when one of the Clinical officers scolded us in the  
hospital on how to make beds but we did not deserve to be  
scolded.
Last academic year I received bad news - my grand-uncle had  
passed away.  I felt lonely and bad because apart from the          
biological ties, he was a good old friend of mine at home.
I was supposed to be studying for my math midterm a few days ago,  
however, I fooled around with my roommate, and didn't start  
studying until 12:00 am. I was disgusted with myself.
When I went to the pub with a large group of friends, we drank  
and danced.
It was my turn to cook dinner.  I forgot a dish (the favourite of  
the family) in the oven and it got burnt and was uneatable.
I was disgusted with a friend's behaviour when she got absolutely  
drunk so that she vomitted all over my house.
We had a day off from school. Instead of helping my mother with  
her job, I stayed in bed all day.
A situation where we were the center of attention, and things  
happened without my control on them, that showed our disagreement,  
and ignorance.
I felt joy most strongly some years ago, when I took part in a  
NH Competition and I was the first.
When my younger sister visited me during the school holidays and  
told me that she would not go back to school because she was  
pregnant.
It was spring and the ice was melting.  I was far out on a jetty and I poked the ice with a long branch to try and break it.
 The branch went through the ice and I fell in, the water closed  
in over my head.
When my ex-husband left our house, and the children cried because  
he was not coming back.
Once I was very frightened at night as I had a very fearful and  
terrifying dream, I could not go back to sleep for a long time.
I have a girlfriend, who is almost like a daughter to me.  She is  
studying out of station and I get to see her only once a year.   
Her arrival is always a joyous one.
One day, when I was twelve years old, my brother took some slimy  
substance swimming on the surface of a pot of vinegar made of  
cider and threatened to throw it at me.
In a conversation my boyfriend expressed definite and quite  
pretentious opinions and he took up an attitude towards a theory  
which he himself had never known. His information was from  
fortuitous sources.
I was catched when, as a little girl, I played tricks. I was very  
startled then and wet my pants.
The hero was chased by a terrible vampire in a suspense and  
horror film shown on T.V.
I chatted up with a girl who I didn't love. She however was  
fallen in love with me. I felt responsible for her sorrow.
When my first sexual intercourse turned out to be a flop.  I was  
in a panic and ended up without an erection.
I had a test in the class and I had not adequately prepared  
myself. I didn't fare so well on the exam and I felt bad about  
it.
My father's death in January 1983 moved me deeply.  The gloom  
prevailed for almost two years and I am still to recover from it.
I had not seen my brother for five years as he was not in Spain.    
When he arrived at the airport, I felt great joy.
I was in a very small class and the professor said something  
about me that made everyone look at me at the same time.
I felt happy at the end of a 10 day student camp.  We had shared  
our hopes and aspirations and in the open situation so generated, we  
had made strong frienships and experienced our own worth as well.
When I met a friend whom I had not seen for a long time and  
heard all about her troubles, I thought that I should have got  
in touch with her earlier.
Several years ago my brother died in an accident. When I heard  
about it, I was very sad. It took years until I resigned myself  
to it.
I was told quite unexpectedly that one wanted me to become the  
vice-chairman of our student organisation.  I was really  
surprised and joy was the first emotion I felt, though behind it  
there was worry - how shall I succeed ?
At my father's treatment of my mother, at his disregard for her,  
and not being committed to her.
When I lied to my girlfriend, telling her that I had passed an  
exam, when I actually did not even take it.
The day I was forced to use a public convenience place in town.   
It was so filthy that it really made me sick.
A co-worker and I had to rush a project. I was only working there  
for one month and he for some years. Instead of letting me know  
that he wanted to do the project himself, he went to the  
superviser and let the superviser tell me to let the co-worker do  
it himself since he was quicker at it.
When I made acquaintance with the parents of my boyfriend for the  
first time. They spoke Limburgian (a dutch dialect) and one of my  
first remarks was that I disliked Limburgian dialect.
Waiting for a taxi - when within 1/2 an hour two separate people  
challenged me to fight for no apparent reason except they were  
drunk.
Many years ago a friend wanted me to with her to southern Europe  
and I preferred to travel alone.  I felt guilty because I wanted  
to go on my own.
The more than satisfactory result of a recently-completed  
university subject was communicated to me by phone.
When we were going to Nkhoma last Saturday the vehicle was moving  
very fast, so I feared we might crash since the road was too  
rough.
News was spread that I had been found doing sexual intercourse  
with a small girl. At first this annoyed me but later on I became  
ashamed because many people seemed to believe it.
Some people whom I do not like at all, and one of the reasons is  
their physical appearance.
The time I shouted at most of my friends at a party.  It was as if  
 all my friends had done something wrong, or may be it was the  
influence of the beer.
When they found out that I was absent from school, I had gone to  
the girl's secondary school.
I suddenly found that those whom I considerered to be my good  
friends did not care for me.  Although I could still be with them  
I felt unimportant.  I deeply thought about the reason behind  
this so as to see who was responsible for this.  Finally I made  
up my mind and decided not to expect too much from them.  I was  
sad when I decided that they were no longer my good friends.
I was ashamed one day when we were found stealing and roasting  
maize cobs from Agricultural experimental projects.
When I have sometimes been unfair to my parents, when I have  
happened to deceive them over some trifling things.
I was at the table at a French friend's house.  They served me a  
big dish with roast cauliflower and sauce.  I had to eat it.
My mother had sent me to buy a few things.  The change I brought  
back was not right as I had given away some money to a friend  
thinking that she would not notice it.  However, my mother told  
me that the change was not correct.
A friend told me about his cousin who is my girlfriend. He said  
she had treated him in a mean and nasty way. I was surprised  
because in front of other people she had always treated him in a  
friendly way. I am very sad about it.
When I lost my father on the 25th of September,1970.  He died of  
a sore on the leg.
My boyfriend finished our relationship when I started studying  
psychology in Nijegen, because then we would not be able to meet  
frequently anymore.
When my parents and sister went on a trip and I was separated  
from them for about three months.
[ No answer as I see very little difference between shame and  
guilt.  Therefore see answer for "shame".]
At a weekend's seminar my trousers suddenly burst, therefore I was  
prevented from participating in several activities.
When I blamed my failure to the bias and favouritism in the         
marking system, in fact I had not worked hard enough.
Sometime back I used to stay with my mum alone then time came  
when dad joined the family from his working place I found myself  
having fear for him for no cause at all.
My failure to provide the appropriate emotional/spiritual level  
to a sexual relationship that had a large physical content. Born  
out of inconsistency with my personal beliefs and value shame at  
largely using this sexual partner.
Recently, some friends and I had too much to drink while on a  
foot-ball road trip to USC. We trashed our hotel room and I felt  
ashamed when the maid walked in the next morning.
I had a friend who I didn't see for a long time. We had a  
relationship from much union and interaction. It was more that  
one year that I didn't see her. She appeared in my home and we  
talked.
I am a kindergarten teacher and I am thoroughly weary of my job.   
After having taken the university entrance exam I suffered from  
anxiety for weeks as I did not want to carry on with my work - studies  
were the only alternative.
Many times, when my father used to come home drunk and maltreated  
physically me and my mother.
A day I was with my boyfriend and a couple of friends in a bar,  
and he said something that I didn't like (I don't remember what).  
Without thinking I slept him in his back, getting ashamed and  
sorry just after.
When I asked my classmate to teach me to do my homework, he asked  
me to study by myself first but I did not do it.  When he asked me  
 if I had studied, I felt very ashamed.
I was very pleased and happy when my older sister came home from  
living somewhere out of town and I hadn't seen her for months. We  
are very close sisters.
Someone told me that he would stay at my home for one night.  
Therefore I made big efforts to make everything ok (food). One day  
before he cancelled the appointment because he had to go to  
church with his parents.
When I decided to move away from my parent's home, my mother told  
me that it was as if a part of her had been torn out of her.
I shared a secret with a friend and it later turned out that he  
had revealed it to another person with whom I didn't get along very well.
My friend had many female friends and I thought that they were  
his lovers.  I would scold him but he did not accept my advice.   
Later I learnt from his girlfriends that this was not true.  I  
felt ashamed at having misunderstood him.
When I heard a rumour that the 1st year exam results were out. I  
had fear that I might be one of the failures.
I was watching a movie alone - it was a horror movie. The music  
was a deep pulsing type - not really music. And a light flashed  
on and off. It was in the complete darkness of a movie theatre  
that was almost empty.
When I take a look into a slaughter-house and when listening to  
stories about torturing people or animals.
Recently when I made a slip and blurted out indecent words in my  
mother's presence.
I had a quarrel with a good friend about the fact that I didn't  
pay her a visit when she expected me to come. Hereafter I was  
very sad because it became a real quarrel.
When I was an evening school teacher it was my job to make the  
coffee but I was not able to get the coffee ready on time and I  
thus arrived half an hour late to the class.  On top of this the  
coffee was undrinkable.
After going through much shame, I became a Christian and  
something new happened in my heart.  Joy that overflows was  
manifest in me.
When I received some good news : I obtained an amount of money I  
needed to buy something I had been planning to buy.
When I had crossed Lilongwe forest I heard that there was a rabid  
hyena just near the path in the forest.
I saw a movie called "The Thing", the film directed by John  
Carpenter.  The monster in the film made me feel disgusted.
Whenever I am late, I feel ashamed of myself even though no one  
tells me anything.
The emotion came to me when a certain girl who was not polite to  
her mother hit her sister severely.
Some friends and I were crossing a street when one of my friends  
was seized by a car and thrown aside. I had seen the car coming  
in our direction but I did not have enough time to react and  
prevent the accident.
When a big angry dog put its snout on my arm and had I made one  
movement it would have bitten me.
I was to take a test and I had not made the necessary preparations  
until it was too late.  There were two days to go and I still had  
not done much.
Finding out that my grandfather had died. He lived in England and  
I had not seen him for 10 years.
One night I had to bike home all alone after a party. Then I  
found out that I was pursued by a man in a car.
I feel disgust with some people when I see what they are capable  
of, including lack of any dignity, when trying to find a seat in  
the tram.
When last year in college I received the award "Best Student of the Year",  
  I felt very happy as I got what I had wanted and my wish had  
been fulfilled.
I went to see a friend. There were other people, too, and  
everybody brought some present. I was the onlyone who brought  
nothing. My friend was very hospitable and did not show anything  
- although I knew how he felt.
I had a quarrel with my father. He was depressed, because  
somebody had treated him injustly. As we had an argument, it was  
impossible for me to help him.
When I wasn't well prepared for a terminal exam and the teacher  
tried to give me a three by asking me some very easy questions. I  
burned with shame then.
When I was 8 years old my tonsils had to be operated on. This is  
not a complicated operation, but just before it started I was  
very afraid so that I will never forget it.
When I was an auxiliary nurse at the hospital and I had to change  
the nappies, for the first time, of a very old and sick woman.
When the Real Madrid football team lost against the inter in the  
U.E.F.A cup.
I borrowed money from a friend and did not pay back the debt when  
I said I would.
I was wearing a short skirt one day and someone told me my  
underwear was showing.
When I embarrassed a friend by asking him aloud if a certain  
person was "the source of gossip" he told me about, while that  
person was also present.
The end of a relationship (after 4 years) by doing this I hurt  
the other person very much.
I was admited to the Chinese university of Hong Kong.  The day  
the results were announced I looked in the newspaper and saw my  
candidature number.
When I began to read a thick book, which I had a limited time to  
read.  Also when I have a lot of work to do and I cannot keep up.
When I got through the examination for my driver licence, and  
when I finished I knew I had passed it.