Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology to improve a workout experience of a user by determining an emotional state of the user, identifying a workout route based on the emotional state of the user, and outputting the workout route via a user interface device. Additionally, determining the emotional state of the user may include inferring emotions from one or more sensor information or user speech information. In one example, the sensor information includes one or more of blood pressure signals, heart rate signals or sweat measurement signals and the user speech information includes one or more of words used in an input utterance or a prosody of the input utterance.