Honestly, my chars aren't made so much on emotion as the current issues I feel strongly about. Names, for sure, are not emotion-based.
But at one point, I was very angry about the discrimination against 'obese' people, or people who are not stick-thin. So I made a thickset character, a pit bull, who was still (in my opinion) quite feminine.
Another time someone had just slurred on different sexuality types, exhibiting horrific homophobia, so I mad a char that was bisexual, and actually found one of my favourite characters ever through this.
So, emotion based... not so much. More like what I think is important. c:
