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Our ability to communicate relies in part upon a\nshared emotional experience, with stories often following distinct emotional\ntrajectories and forming patterns that are meaningful to us. Here, by\nclassifying the emotional arcs for a filtered subset of 1,327 stories from\nProject Gutenberg's fiction collection, we find a set of six core emotional\narcs which form the essential building blocks of complex emotional\ntrajectories. We strengthen our findings by separately applying Matrix\ndecomposition, supervised learning, and unsupervised learning. 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