Emotional intuition arises from the intricate interplay of passions, moods, sentiments, and attitudes. Passions, our basic emotional episodes, provide immediate, more reflexive responses to stimuli. Moods, as emotional conditional states, color our overall emotional landscape for extended periods. Sentiments, learned emotional episodes, reflect our acquired emotional responses based on experience. Attitudes, emotional trait states, represent our enduring dispositions towards certain emotions.

At its core, intuition is a fusion of passions and moods, representing our immediate, biologically-driven responses; with sentiments and attitudes as secondary, which embody our learned emotional patterns. Passions and moods form the bedrock of our intuitive emotional responses. These are rooted in our evolutionary heritage that operate primarily through feelings, or more specifically, affects and impulses, offering an instantaneous, visceral understanding of our circumstances.

Layered upon this foundation are sentiments and attitudes, more sophisticated emotional constructs shaped by our experiences and social learning, with passions and moods as their foundation. Sentiments draw upon a richer tapestry of mental content as fantasy, more specifically, beliefs and will. These elements allow for a deeper, more nuanced interpretation of our emotional landscape, informed not just by biological imperatives but also by our accumulated knowledge, and especially, societal influences.