If emotional experience requires the kind of norm-governed conceptual space Sellars and Barrett invoke, then organisms outside that space have only proto-emotional affect, not emotions proper.

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Affect(as the emotional experience being reproduced or transmitted): The technical term for feelings, emotions, or emotional states—basically, what someone is feeling at any given moment.
Barrett(referenced alongside Sellars as supporting the view that emotions require conceptual frameworks): Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist and psychologist who studies how emotions work in the brain; she argues that emotions aren't innate reactions but are constructed by the brain using concepts and past experiences.
Sellars: Wilfrid Sellars was an influential 20th-century American philosopher who fundamentally changed how we think about knowledge, perception, and meaning. He argued that our scientific understanding of the world and our everyday experiences of it aren't separate things but need to be brought together into one coherent picture. His ideas, particularly about how language relates to reality and how we know things, continue to shape modern philosophy.
conceptual space(as the structure Feyerabend argues disappears)

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