2025 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 25-32
The previous researches approached to the relationship between stories and emotions from various viewpoints. However, the details about the relationships between plot patterns and emotions of readers, protagonists and characters have not been yet clarified. This paper focused on picture books which would have comparatively simple story structures, and developed a dataset for emotions of readers and protagonists and other characters with story structure based on scene units. From the analysis for constructed dataset, those are cleared that “Anger”, “Sadness” and “Anticipation” co-occur for readers and protagonists, “Surprise” co-occurs for readers and all characters, but “Joy”, “Fear”, and “Disgust” don’t co-occur. Moreover, stories were clustered based on chronological shift of emotions, and three types of clusters “tragedy”, “reader satisfaction” and “happy end” were extracted.
