Adverbs such as 'again', 'intermittently', 'on occasion', 'back then', 'recurrently', 'often', 'seldom', etc easily could combine with various emotional components, possibly in a systematic way. Obviously, some gaps easily could occur in such a system.
Meanings such adverbs would encode include '(too) often', 'seldom (enough)', 'back then (~in the good old days~)', 'again (argh why the heck does that have to happen again blargh)', 'back then (man I hated those times)', 'soon (and luckily, not too soon)', a while ago (and I am happy that much time has passed), etc. Emotions basically are marked on scales of intensity of emotion, positive or negative emotion as well as two points off that axis representing 'sufficient' or 'insufficient' - i.e. frequency, time passed or remaining, or sufficiently long or short time span.
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