Is it normal to try and assign emotions a number/mentally put them in a file?

I'm also curious about people not on the spectrum (NTs, or neurotypicals).

When I was a kid, I used to try and file each different emotion a number, but I kept on finding it an impossible task.
I still do this every now and again, even though I'm in my twenties now.

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I would start by mentally listing the emotions I knew of, but then my head would start spinning when I realised that
a) I don't know what all emotions feel like, and never will.
b)What do all the other countries in the world call different emotions?
c)What about all the different nuances to each emotion?
d)How would I organise them in this filing cabinet in my head? [Happy, sad, angry, confused and then subcategories? Alphabetical order? But not all emotions can be shown through words! Don't forget gestures and pictures... maybe even sounds!]