We know that music evokes pretty intense emotional reactions. While we’re not sure precisely why humans even have music to begin with, we do know we’ve pretty much always made it—and always loved it! 

In a new major study, neuroscientists from UC Berkeley mapped out emotional responses to thousands of musical excerpts in dozens of genres and collated these 13 overarching feelings as tags in an interactive mood space:  

The map displays emotional experience in a two x two dimensional framework…