Intense Emotion Without Graduated Affect

This is an experiential construal of intense emotion but not an interpersonal enactment of graduated affect. This is because AFFECT is the system of enacting a positive or negative appraisal by reference to emotion, and no such appraisal is enacted here. (Any enactment of a judgement by the author of the clause is a separate matter.) 

Counterexpectancy: Exceeding Vs Limiting

Well he was an ugly guy

With an ugly face

An also-ran 

in the human race

And even God got sad 

just looking at him

— Laurie Anderson Gravity's Angel

Well	he	was	an ugly guy	with an ugly face
			an also-ran	in the human race
	Subject	Finite	Complement	Adjunct
	Mood		Residue

And	even	God	got		sad
	Mood Adjunct: intensity: counterexpectancy: exceeding	Subject	Finite	Predicator	Complement
	Mood			Residue

just	looking	at him
Mood Adjunct: intensity: counterexpectancy: limiting	Predicator	Adjunct
Mood	Residue

In terms of appraisal theory, 

the author's attitude to him is one of negative appreciation (ugly, ugly, also-ran), 

and the author's projection of God's attitude to the look of him is negative affect (sad).

Negative Judgement As Marked Theme

Foolish	are	those who think a clause can have both a marked and an unmarked Theme
Theme: marked	Rheme
Attribute	Process: relational	Carrier
Complement	Finite	Subject
Residue	Mood