In the moment I experience them for the first time, my body renders them as if they were "my" emotions. Once that method of input is removed, or what is there has expended itself, I can sever it; after that, emotions like that can resonate with sensations I feel after it, but they don't feel like me. So... for instance, in self-loathing, it's very easy for me to tell which part is me, and which is the existential crisis of an old friend bleeding in.

[ Her visible eye narrows for focus, but she's not looking at Chilton as she explains. ]

It's sort of... both, I suppose? If the sensation is very strong in that first moment, then "I" may not even be present... but once it passes, I'm me again. I'm sure I would have been a much different person without these powers at all, but it's hard to say by how much. I was still a child when they became like this.