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Emotions are gestures used by both the player and non-playable characters, namely villagers. The purpose of various emotions are to display or emphasis various moods or feelings of the user without the use of words or text.

Villagers' Emotions

Aside from expressing emotions when in conversation, villagers may also show an emotion when walking about town.

• A dark purple cloud with a swirl means the villager is either sad, or is sick (indoors only).
• An exclamation mark above a villager's head appears either when they are realizing something, or if not talking to anyone, wanting to talk to the player.
• If steam is coming out of a villager's head, they're angry.
• When they're singing, that means the villager is happy.
• Villagers may also clap when a Player catches a rare fish or insect, or sometimes when fireworks go off in Wild World and City Folk. They react in shock if the Player catches a piece of trash instead.
• Only in New Leaf sometimes villagers may show the 'thought' emotion and stop in place requesting they are not spoken to as they are too deep in thought.

Conversations with villagers and players sometime cause a villager's emotion to change from normal to happy, sad, or angry. Conversations can't be started if a villager is angry or sad - they will tell the player they don't feel like talking. In Animal Crossing, Peppy villagers will sometimes cheer themselves up if they are feeling sad when you talk to them.

Learning Emotions

In Wild World, the player can get emotions from Dr. Shrunk in a random encounter with him when he is walking around their village.

In City Folk, Dr. Shrunk is found in the city's theater, where emotions can be learned for 800 Bells. He is sometimes replaced by Frillard, who teaches emotions unknown to Dr. Shrunk. A player can retain up to four emotions at a time. If a fifth emotion is to be learned, one of the previous four must be forgotten.

The Emotion tab in New Leaf.

In New Leaf, Dr. Shrunk can be found in Club LOL every day, however, if the player visits him before the club's opening at 8 PM, he will offer to perform for the player in exchange for a piece of fruit. Being a former stage comedian, Dr. Shrunk's performances consist of him telling a joke and showing an emotion for the player to learn. Upon learning an emotion, the player can access it for use from their joke book, which is given to them by Dr. Shrunk after his first performance.

Emotions

This is a list of emotions that can be learned and what they look like in-game.

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  Agreement The player/animal nods.

• Angerplayer.png

  Anger The player's face turns red and 3 clouds blow from their heads.

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  Approval

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  Bashfulness Learnable from Frillard.

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  Confusion

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  Contentment

• CuriosityplayerNL.jpg

  Curiosity a question mark blows upward from the player's head.

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  Delight The player claps.

• DisagreementplayerNL.jpg

  Disagreement The player shakes their head no. New Leaf

• Disbeleif.jpg

  Disbelief A red shock mark comes above the player's head along with a piano crash sound.

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  Discontent

• Brown Leaf.jpg

  Disinterest A brown leaf is blown past the player's head.

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  Distress Sweat drops fall around the player's head.

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  Exasperation

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  Fatigue

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  Flourish New Leaf

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  Fear The player shivers.

• Kiki Sings.jpg

  Glee a musical note appears.

• Happinessplayer.png

  Happiness Player smiles

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  Heartbreak A heart blows upward from the player's head and breaks in half.

• InspirationplayerNL.jpg

  Inspiration A lightbulb appears. Learnable from Frillard.

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  Irritation The player pulls an angry face.

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  Joy Flowers bloom around the villager.

• Laughter.gif

  Laughter - AC: "Ha Ha" appears around the character.

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  Laughter - WW & CF: Yellow lines come out of the player as he/she laughs.

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  Love A heart blows upward from the player's head.

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  Mischief A purple streak flashes as the player grins in an evil manner and uses one hand to cover their face.

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  Outrage/Rage A worse version of anger. Learnable from Frillard.

• Realize2.png

  Realisation An exclamation mark blows upward from the player's head.

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  Resignation The player puts their hands up horizontal to their face, like an 'I dunno' pose.

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  Sadness You perform a sad face and a dark cloud appears over the characters head.

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  Scheming A piano plays as you speak to yourself.

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  Shock The player takes a step back and shock marks appear above their head.

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  Shyness The character blushes. New Leaf

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  Sleepiness The player yawns.

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  Sneezing New Leaf

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  Sorrow The player/animal cries.

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  Sunniness New Leaf

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  Surprise The player has big eyes and shock lines appear over the characters head.

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  Thought A thought bubble floats over your head. Learnable from Frillard.

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