If negative concepts are predominant, we consider the triad unbalanced. In this sense, emotional unbalance reflects the preponderance of negatively-valenced words within a given triad. Our definition of emotional balance corresponds to the definition of strong structural balance considering \(\{-, -, -\}\) triads as unbalanced 42.

After creating the above modified versions of the networks, we build the associated signed networks and calculate the corresponding degree of balance and triad frequency values for both the null models. We present the mean and standard deviations for each count and for the degree of balance based on a sample of 1000 random realizations.

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