This study investigates the polysemy of the French verb sentir, traditionally studied among perception verbs, from a usage-based perspective through a behavioural profile analysis conducted on a heterogeneous written and spoken corpus. The aim is to assess whether the annotated senses of sentir form a structured distributional structure rather than a simple inventory of discrete lexical meanings. The analysis relies on hierarchical clustering in order to reconstruct distributional proximities among the verb’s different uses. The results show that the senses of sentir are not randomly distributed, but instead display a coherent distributional structure. The most robust finding concerns an opposition between uses involving property or emanation and uses centered on the experiencer’s perception. The analysis also identifies a relatively stable network core in which the sense “to experience an internal bodily state” emerges as the best candidate for a distributional reference point. The study further proposes a topological interpretation distinguishing an internal experiential zone, a modality-specific sensory zone, and a referential periphery, interpreted through several semantic organizational mechanisms, including metaphor, metonymy, specialization, subjectification, and schematization.