Figure 4.

Cosine distance between our representations of gay, homosexual, all LGBTQ terms, and American and the vector representation of the Moral Disgust concept, averaged over 10 word2vec models trained on New York Times data for each year. Increases in cosine distance indicate decreases in Moral Disgust; possible values range from 0 (most closely associated with Moral Disgust) to 1 (least associated with Moral Disgust). Shaded bands represent 95% confidence intervals and the solid lines are Lowess curves for visualization purposes.