Figure 1From: The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes Schematic of how we compute emotional arcs. The indicated uniform length segments (gap between samples) taken from the text form the sample with fixed window size set at \(N_{w} = 10\text{,}000\) words. The segment length is thus \(N_{s} = (N -(N_{w}+1))/n\) for N the length of the book in words, and n the number of points in the time series. Sliding this fixed size window through the book, we generate n sentiment scores with the Hedonometer, which comprise the emotional arc [22].Back to article page