Noun corresponding to ‘touch’ when used in its emotional sense?

TOUCH vt.
　to influence someone or something emotionally, or cause feelings of sympathy in someone.
　e.g. The TV report about the children’s work for charity touched thousands of people’s hearts.

— Cambridge Dictionary

Above is the definition of “touch” in the sense of emotionally affecting somebody. However, “touch” doesn’t have such meaning when used as a noun, and I didn’t get a satisfying answer on my Longman Dictionary and Oxford Dictionary, and on Google. So I wonder if there exists some nouns meaning the emotional effect in English?