This pedagogy-based research was conducted through a design studio challenge in which students were tasked with the creation of virtual models that place affect production at the center of the design process. The raster-based environment of VR operated as a site, which permitted a momentary withdrawal from considerations of structure, program, climate, gravity, materiality, and even circulation. The elimination of obtrusive variables allowed us to effectively register the correlation between spatial qualities and affective properties. The aim of the paper is to 1) catalogue affective reactions to these highly abstracted virtual spaces; 2) register any possible consensus among multiple subjects; and 3) identify correlations between affective experience and spatial qualities.