This paper focuses on extracting emotions from works published by Romanian canonical authors. The information about canonical authors represents a part of the data provided by the INTELLIT platform (Gavrilă, Băjenaru & Dobre, 2019a). The INTELLIT platform aims to be the largest digital archive in Romania containing data regarding our national literary heritage. All the information is provided by the Romanian Academy, the Institute of Literary History and Theory and the National Foundation for Science and Art in collaboration with the Publishing House of the Museum of Romanian Literature (Simion, 2005; Simion, 2006). The platform provides information about the life and work of the Romanian authors, about important events in our culture (complete chronology of events from 1994 to 2000), information about all the authors from A to Z, different works written