Chaouch-Orozco, Li and Li demonstrate that emotion concepts are organised differently across cultural-linguistic environments and identify temporal orientation as a specific predictor of that variation. Native speakers of fifteen languages arranged forty-seven emotion concepts according to perceived semantic similarity, producing language-specific semantic spaces. The methodological strength lies in turning conceptual organisation into a relational geometry rather than treating words as isolated lexical units. Pairwise comparison then makes cultural distance analytically visible: long-term orientation emerges as the strongest cultural predictor of semantic similarity, with geographical distance adding a more modest effect, while several other Hofstede dimensions contribute little once shared variance is controlled. The theoretical importance of the paper lies in moving beyond the vague proposition that “culture matters” toward a measurable account of how a particular cultural orientation shapes conceptual space. It bridges cultural psychology, lexical semantics and cognitive science by treating semantic organisation itself as evidence of culturally patterned emotional knowledge rather than as a neutral linguistic container.