Many efforts have been made to construct multi-dimensional affective lexicons, such as ANEW for English (Bradley and Lang, 1999;Warriner et al., 2013), CVAW for Chinese (Yu et al., 2016), and other languages (Montefinese et al., 2014;Imbir, 2015).
another method is to use sentiment related features, such as total count of sentiment tokens, total sentiment score, maximal sentiment score, etc.