Crowdsourcing and ValidatingEvent-focused Emotion Corpora for German and English
Table 3: Event type analysis: Cells are counts of post-annotation out of 55 descriptions for each emotion.
['[EMPTY]', '[ITALIC] Dimension', 'Anger', 'Disgust', 'Fear', 'Guilt', 'Joy', 'Sadness', 'Shame']
In both English and German, only a few units depict general and future events, in line with the annotation guidelines. Fear more often targets the future than other emotions. Most event descriptions involve other participants, especially in English. In general, events seem to affect authors themselves more than other people, particularly in the case of Joy and Fear. Exceptions are Guilt and Sadness, for which there is a predominance of events whose effects bear down on others. Regarding the aspect of situational control, Shame and Guilt dominate. Guilt is particularly more frequent in descriptions in which the author is presumably responsible. These observations echo the findings by \newcitetracy2006appraisal.