Showing joy or fear, say (7)

I believe the answer is:

emotive

(Other definitions for emotive that I've seen before include "Eliciting intense feeling" , "Contentious" , "Arousing deep feeling" , "Arousing intense feeling" , "Arousing strong feelings" .)

I've seen this clue in The Washington Post.

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