Iconclass has an "Abstract Ideas and Concepts" at the top of the hierarchy, with "Emotion" as a subclass. For example, this link http://www.iconclass.nl/libertas/ic?task=getnotation&datum=56B2&style=notationbb.xsl&taal=en goes to the English-language record for "56B2" which maps to "Happiness, Felicity" in English as follows:
5 Abstract Ideas and Concepts
56 Emotion
56B Joy and Sorry
56B2 Happiness, Felicity
EB.
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