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Wow, I think I would cry with all these answers. First of all, as someone who works with therapy horses, they absolutely have the ability to sense human emotions, often times better than we do ourselves. So, to your question, it's sort of a yes/no, if the human approaching them is angry, they will sense it, and react to that, regardless of whether or not the horse is use to humans.
In the case you seem to presenting, he/she is not socialized, and as a prey animal, sees only a predator, and if they cannot flee, which is their first response, they will stand ground. Standing ground is what yours is doing, the horse is showing it's terrified, through the perceived anger. Like a person who is pushed to the limit, a horse will eventually fight back as is this case, his first defense is warning you away with body language, a horses primary communication.
If you keep pushing him without giving him time to adjust to the presence of humans, then he will become more aggressive, biting, kicking, etc. Horses differentiate human features into what they are, predatorial features, with hands, and 'claws', for grasping, they smell our diet of meat, and the way we carry ourselves in general. It will take time and patience to calm your horse down. Look into Natural Horsemanship, if you are serious about working with this horse, and one suggestion I make is turn him out in a semi-small paddock or large round-pen, and spend time with the horse, but give it the chance to run away from you and gradually make the decision that you aren't there to hurt him.
Hope this helps.
Horses do not have the capacity to understand human emotion. I wish people would stop "humanizing" horses. Everything they understand about us has to do with our body language.
They know we are different than them(we walk differently, we look different, etc.). We are unknown to them, and therefore if a horse is unaccustomed to people he will back away, or put his ears down in fear. It has nothing to do with your emotions at the time.
Bottom line is a horse who is unaccustomed to people are just aware of how we are a different creature, and will treat us just like a coyote that is coming towards them. They don't think we are mad, they think we are predators. They do not have complex emotions, everything they do is driven by their fight or flight instinct.
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