Fig 1.
Panel A (one dimensional): Two hypothetical (simulated) emotion trajectories —separately for valence (v) and arousal (a). Shaded bands are the home bases. Panel B (two dimensional): Home bases of two hypothetical trajectories in v–a space.
Fig 2.
Change in valence over time for two hypothetical (simulated) people (black and red).
The black line depicts a much slower recovery rate than the red line.
Table 1.
Average emotion word density (Av. EWD) and standard deviation (SD) of main characters in IMSDb (N = 2,687).
Table 2.
Average UED metrics (2–6) and standard deviation (SD) in the v–a space for main characters in IMSDb (N = 2,687).
Fig 3.
One dimensional and two dimensional state spaces for Jack (n = 389 words) and Wendy (n = 279 words), two main characters from The Shining (1980).
Color of line corresponds to narrative time, with dark blue meaning earlier in the movie and red meaning later. The black dotted lines show the major and minor axes of an ellipse within which all main characters are 95% of the time (the ellipse itself is not shown to avoid clutter).
Fig 4.
Example displacement with underlying words (from Jack’s dialogues in The Shining).
Note: Here, the location of a word does not correspond to its v{a score, but rather to the character’s v{a rolling average when the word was uttered.
Table 3.
Characters with the highest/lowest emotional variability (var.) in the v–a space.
Note that the bottom rank number is less than the total number of characters in the data because some characters had insufficient number of displacements to obtain reliable averages.
Table 4.
Characters with highest/lowest recovery rate (rec.) in the v–a space.
Note that the bottom rank number is less than the total number of characters in the data because some characters had insufficient number of displacements to obtain reliable averages.
Fig 5.
Density map showing where peak displacements tend to occur.
Red corresponds to more peaks. Density is normalized to go from 0–1.
Fig 6.
Average trends in proportion of positive and negative word usage by characters across narrative time.
Vertical dotted line shows location of peak negative density and lowest positive density. Grey band is the 95% confidence interval around the estimated mean. n = 965,147 words.
Fig 7.
Average character–character discordance over narrative time (n = 1,246,990 words).
Red indicates more discordance, blue indicates less discordance. Discordance is lowest during first quarter of a movie and peaks at 90%. Score is measured in the same scale as the v-a space (i.e., 0.15 implies a Euclidean distance of 0.15 in the state space).