The truth is the feelings are a complex thing to describe. What you felt might be an immeasurable joy or sadness, it might be an intense love or a crushing heartbreak. It doesn't matter which one because it's not wrong to have or not to have those soul-crushing emotions.
For many years before the evolution of neurological science, the emotions and feelings like love have been thought to be based in our hearts because of the change in blood pressure, hence the pounding or slowing down of the heartbeats when emotion overtakes you.