A psychological state is the perception of a predicament together with an emotional response to that predicament where the emotion and the predicament reciprocally provoke each other. There is a locking together of the inner emotional state and the outer predicament that it answers to and influences. In naming it as a state of the psyche the emphasis is placed on the inner component so that it can be placed in significant relation to other such states. Emotions are few but situational descriptions are many, their differentiations being unlimited. States however are always general however much they feel like your own states. Any state you have experienced will have been, and will be again, experienced by others, the same state in multiple contexts. States are cultural artifacts. If they aren't entirely made of language, and they are decidedly not, their difference from being entirely defined by their coordinates in the world of meaning is not meaningless but unmeanable.