Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting Character-Emotions in Fanfiction about Greek Myth with Vector Space Models

Powerpoint for the long paper presented at DH2025. We analyze associations between fictional characters and emotions in a corpus of fanfiction about Greek myth, using vector space models. We examine the similarity in the VSM between six basic emotions -- sadness, joy, anger, fear, surprise and disgust -- and popular characters, and compare patterns across character-genders and fanfiction-genres.