They can also just not have an opposite. What’s the point of deciding on the opposite anyway? If we decide the opposite is ‘happy’ do we start injecting angry people with happy serum?
This reminds of my annoyance with the old phrase ‘the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference’. It’s like saying the opposite of -1 isn’t 1, it’s 0.
The people I’m angry with are those who’ve betrayed me in some meaningful way. The fear is over, but a desire for vengeance/punishment of some kind remains. Anyway, that’s what anger feels like to me.
The opposite of that for me would be gratefulness.
Probably calm. To me it’s not happy since happy and sad are opposites. When I am angry I feel like ripping things to shreds, which to me is the opposite of how I’d be if I was calm.
Opposite of indifference is to care, not to be angry I suspect.