The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes

The original paper [1] also contains some great graphs. And less hyperbole; these are the six basic plots of ~1400 English-language stories on Project Gutenberg, not of every story in the world, ever 1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07772.pdf

wongarsuNov 9, 2023View on HNParent context

He might be referring to this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07772v2.pdf There's a link to it from the actual article.

Marcus316Aug 31, 2020View on HNParent context

In 2016 people analyzed a bunch of fiction and these trajectories showed up: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07772 Articles about: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveal... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/the-s...

ryanchoiJan 8, 2019View on HNParent context

This is the paper if anyone is interested: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07772 I've done some work with one of the authors (Lewis, who is based at Adelaide Uni). They do some interesting work generally.

nlOct 28, 2018View on HNParent context

by classifying the emotional arcs for a filtered subset of 1,737 stories from Project Gutenberg's fiction collection, we find a set of six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives. We strengthen our findings by separately applying optimization…

nlAug 25, 2016View on HNParent context

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07772 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07772v2.pdf

kevbinJul 9, 2016View on HNParent context

Direct link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07772

visargaJul 7, 2016View on HNParent context