Love is to be defined as a sentimental attachment to atoms not of the (HS) host sentience's direct influence. Love is a cumulative statistic that continues to be developed as the HS is conditioned by a given set of atoms in a manner that makes them fabricate idealizations arbitrarily to categorize said atoms cognitively. This means that for the HS to love they must first create a 'fake', purely mental image of the object* they are loving. Love is not a magical emotion that happens externally, so, as you guessed it, love is really just a delusion. This delusion is what sprouts what people would assume to be the opposite of love, hate. Hate is also love, for hate is merely found when an object does not match the assumed delusions, thus by therefor making the HS negatively regress their mental situation into a less idealized one.

*Object; A node in our universal function that can be named or categorized

I find several problems with this statement. First of all, this mainly occurs within the brain, therefor the emotion is the firing of nuerons and the release of neuro-chemicals as a response to the association of the nuerons with each other, making the operative influence here molecules, not individual atoms (lol, all that to say that molecules are controlled by the firing of neurons. I need to stop being a nerd.).

Secondly, hate is not as easy as something not meeting the "delusional" category of "love". It is both not meeting many of the requirements of love, and meeting at least several of preconcieved notions tied to dislike/hate. This is also the direct effect of neurons associating in both random patterns and ones that have been accumulated over experience, i.e. hating roller coasters because even though they are a great thrill, every time you go on them, you puke, therefor meeting not all of the requirements of like, and several for hate.

-No, they're quarks. It doesn't matter, though <.<

-Pain is not negative by default