I think that emotions are located in subconscious mind. Possibly creators made us this way or we evolved to communicate with higher mind via emotions. Most likely just having physical mind was not sufficient - we were too stupid and could not evolve any farther. Emotions allowed our design to be improved so our logical mind is helped by intuition (subconscious mind) and emotions (also located in subconscious mind). Here I run out of terms. I need a term for the part of subconscious mind which contains intuition and emotions, which is available to us all the time. Very likely it is located in etheric body, just beyond the Veil. For emotions, there is a term called emotional body. It is confusing, so I will replace it with the term "emotional mind". For intuition, I will introduce the term "intuitive mind". I suppose that emotional mind and intuitive mind are largely located in etheric body and are part of our subconscious mind. I am sure you know pretty well our higher dimensional design and have better terminology for these bodies.
What is important is that our emotions are stored as archetypes in our emotional mind. Some emotions might be hard-wired into the emotional mind genetically; others might be programmed into it by our culture or can also be supplied from the pool of emotions available at collective human consciousness. Since we have many emotions common between humans and animals, it is quite possible that this non-physical pool of emotions is shared between humans and animals.
As emotions come from outside of physical mind, they are perceived as outside influences, and that is why they are called "feelings". They come from inside the overall personality, but from outside of physical = logical mind.
This our design makes us easy to be manipulated by higher self, intuitive mind (which likely has access to past life experiences) and other higher level beings such as aliens and angels. (I use here the term angels for any non-physical consciousnesses). Likely Annunaki made us these way to facilitate manipulation of human masses. But their input is likely small since our animals seem to also be designed in similarly to us.
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