Fig. 1.

Ratings of 13,915 English words in the Warriner corpus (gray data points) indexed to the valence (top axis) and arousal (right axis) word-emotion rating scales. Also shown: Some familiar words representing various combinations of valence (pleasantness) and arousal (motivation) ratings. The simplified axes (left and bottom) used here and in Figs. 2 and 3 indicate the range of ratings that they represent. Note that the ranges of values on these axes were selected to encompass the words of interest rather than the full range of possible ratings. See text for further explanation