mood

mood (http://definr.com/mood)

     n 1: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of
          feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on
          his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: temper,
           humor, humour]
     2: the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of
        opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since
        the last election" [syn: climate]
     3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
        conceived by the speaker [syn: mode, modality]