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It has been known that Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) elicits a sense of psychological stability and calmness. Kim and Kim (2022) reported the affective representation of ASMR stimuli in the core affective space. Using their dataset, Kim (2022) showed that affective words including angry, fearful, irritated, happy, calm, gay, sad, anxious, gloomy, and peaceful, were mapped onto the valence-arousal space. In this study, I replicated Kim (2022) and also investigated the relationship between affective adjectives and four semantic variables (certainty, preference, familiarity, and imageability). Correlation analyses and multidimensional scaling were performed. The results showed a successful replication of the representation of affective adjectives. Additionally, preference, familiarity, and imageability were linearly correlated with positive valence. Quadratic term of valence was not related to affective adjectives. This result differs from studies using conventional affective words, indicating that the relationship between affective and semantic variables may be stimulus-specific rather than stimulus-general.