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Jinnkai - as confident as I am that conscious AIs will one-day walk and work among us, they wont follow the type of instruction sets you describe. However, you do raise a good point, emotion can be simulated or modeled.
It raises the question, how good does the simulation have to be before it crosses the line into 'real' emotion? Does a single-byte variable angerInt holding 256 discrete 'shades' of anger do it? Or a 12-byte Double Long Int do the job?
My personal slant on this is no - emotion is an emergent property of the system - it's something experienced, like consciousness. I can't code my computer to become conscious, no matter how many if-then-else clauses I put in.
What I might be able to do is program a complex system that models firings of individual neurons, and see it behave in ways that might suggest it was experiencing emotions, as an emergent property of the system - but I'm not sure I'd ever be able to definitively tell one way or another.
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