"It's relatively hard for a brain to generate pleasure, because it needs to activate different opioid sites together to make you like something more," Berridge said. "It's easier to activate desire, because a brain has several 'wanting' pathways available for the task. Sometimes a brain will like the rewards it wants. But other times it just wants them."
ScienceDaily: Why 'Wanting' And 'Liking' Something Simultaneously Is Overwhelming: Filed in: desire, pleasure, brain, temptation
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I think that the idea that emotion is what happens in gaps in our thinking is probably unhelpful and may be wrong. Looking at, for example, Antonio Damasio's work it does seem that the emotions play a central role in what we normally call 'thinking'. In fact as this appreciation and outline of his work points out "Contrary to some popular notions, emotions do not ‘get in the way of’ rational thinking - emotions are essential to rationality."
So, as it stands, I suspect you might want to get to grips with Damasio and re-evaluate?
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