Insight
The Emotional Arc
A page-by-page sentiment analysis of the Big Book. Above the line is hope; below is despair. Watch the journey unfold across 164 pages.
Lowest Point
Page 66
Chapter 5: How It Works
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Highest Point
Page 28
Chapter 2: There Is a Solution
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By Chapter
How this works: Each page is scored by counting positive words (hope, faith, freedom, recovery, etc.) and negative words (fear, despair, suffering, resentment, etc.), then computing the difference as a percentage of total words. The line is smoothed with a 3-page rolling average. This is a simple lexical analysis — it captures the broad emotional contour, not every nuance. Text from the official aa.org chapter PDFs.