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Psalms

Emotions Count
Anger 498
Joy 901
Contentment 332
Sorrow 238
Fear 358
Tones Count
Petitioning 145
Pleading 147
Violence 120
Boasting 69
Anxiety 145
Praise 642
Fear (tone) 63
Righteousness 427

We were expecting there to be a high number count for each emotion and tone in Psalms. The Psalms have 150 chapters, as opposed to Revelations' 21 chapters. We looked less at the specific number count and more at which emotions and tones occured most frequently. We were suprised to see that joy was the most common emotion by a wide margin withanger coming in at nearly half the frequency. Praise was a highly used tone within the book, as well.

Revelations

Emotions Count
Anger 101
Joy 55
Contentment 10
Sorrow 23
Fear 5
Tones Count
Petitioning 4
Pleading 0
Violence 74
Boasting 7
Anxiety 9
Praise 50
Fear (tone) 2
Righteousness 30

For Revelations, we had been expecting anger to be the most commonly occuring emotion in the book, and that ended up being the case. However, we were suprised that mentions of joy came to only half the frequency as anger. Still, despite the nature of the text, fear wasn't used frequently as an emotion or a tone. We had also been expecting a lower number count for each emotion and tone, due to the book's size, but not quite to the degree that we got.

Emotion and Tone Intersections: Psalms Tone Emotion joy contentment anger fear sorrow praise 701 179 46 10 9 righteousness 208 113 318 41 19 fear 28 39 13 1 anxiety 25 106 84 2 2 violence 154 43 42 15 7 petitioning 58 120 45 61 23 pleading 106 85 6 3 6 boasting 28 41 75 11 5

Looking at the intersection of emotions and tones for each book was an interesting exercise. A lot of overlaps we had begun to notice when marking our work for analysis, but there were a few intersections that surpised us, such as fear and joy and fear and contentment.

Emotion and Tone Intersections: Revelations Tone Emotion joy sorrow anger contentment fear praise 48 4 1 1 1 righteousness 5 27 4 violence 75 7 1 1 petitioning 2 1 1 4 3 boasting 4 2 2 fear 1 2 pleading 1 anxiety 6 3

For Revelations, it was interesting to see that the overlap between emotions and tones was kept to only a few instances, the majority of the overlap falling into a few areas.

Emotion and Tone Intersections: Both Tone Emotion joy contentment anger fear sorrow praise 749 183 47 11 10 righteousness 212 113 345 41 24 fear 29 39 15 1 anxiety 25 109 90 2 2 violence 229 44 43 22 7 petitioning 59 124 47 64 24 pleading 106 86 6 3 6 boasting 30 45 77 11 5

The intersection of both texts wasn't greatly influenced by the data from Revelations, and so much of the analysis ended up being geared towards the Psalms.