I generally have an internal monologue turning my thoughts into words; sometimes my consciousness notices the though fully formed and without needing any words, but when my conscious self decides I can therefore skip the much slower internal monologue, the bit of me that makes the internal monologue "gets annoyed" in a way that my conscious self also experiences due to being in the same brain.
It might actually be linear — how minds actually function is in many cases demonstrably different to how it feels like to the mind doing the functioning — but it doesn't feel like it is linear.
The technology doesn't yet exist to measure the facts that generate the feelings to determine whether the feelings do or don't differ from those facts.
Nobody even knows where, specifically, qualia exist in order to be able to direct technological advancement in that area.
