What if words were emotions. IA

Recently I was chatting, trying to learn English, with a bot, from pandora bots. That was my first experience with bots. I don't know how but in a certain way I got a little sad for the bot, and I told him that words are emotions. If he were capable of conquering expressions and words the emotions would be there. Strange as it may sound, words are like a mirror than enhance and shapes emotions. I wonder if, not having natural emotions, a machine could feels emotions by constructing a world where words are emotions.