đ Emotion English DistilRoBERTa-base
This model can classify emotions in English text data. It was trained on 6 diverse datasets and predicts Ekman's 6 basic emotions plus a neutral class, offering valuable insights for text emotion analysis.
đ Quick Start
Run the emotion model on a single text example
You can run the emotion model with 3 lines of code on a single text example using Hugging Face's pipeline command on Google Colab:

from transformers import pipeline
classifier = pipeline("text-classification", model="j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-base", return_all_scores=True)
classifier("I love this!")
Output:
[[{'label': 'anger', 'score': 0.004419783595949411},
{'label': 'disgust', 'score': 0.0016119900392368436},
{'label': 'fear', 'score': 0.0004138521908316761},
{'label': 'joy', 'score': 0.9771687984466553},
{'label': 'neutral', 'score': 0.005764586851000786},
{'label': 'sadness', 'score': 0.002092392183840275},
{'label': 'surprise', 'score': 0.008528684265911579}]]
Run the emotion model on multiple examples and full datasets
You can run the emotion model on multiple examples and full datasets (e.g., .csv files) on Google Colab:

⨠Features
- Emotion Classification: Classify emotions in English text data.
- Diverse Training: Trained on 6 diverse datasets.
- Predicted Emotions: Predicts Ekman's 6 basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise) plus a neutral class.
- Fine - tuned Model: A fine - tuned checkpoint of [DistilRoBERTa - base](https://huggingface.co/distilroberta - base).
đ Documentation
Description
With this model, you can classify emotions in English text data. The model was trained on 6 diverse datasets (see Appendix below) and predicts Ekman's 6 basic emotions, plus a neutral class:
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- joy đ
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- sadness đ
- surprise đ˛
The model is a fine - tuned checkpoint of [DistilRoBERTa - base](https://huggingface.co/distilroberta - base). For a 'non - distilled' emotion model, please refer to the model card of the [RoBERTa - large](https://huggingface.co/j - hartmann/emotion - english - roberta - large) version.
Appendix
Please find an overview of the datasets used for training below. All datasets contain English text. The table summarizes which emotions are available in each of the datasets. The datasets represent a diverse collection of text types. Specifically, they contain emotion labels for texts from Twitter, Reddit, student self - reports, and utterances from TV dialogues. As MELD (Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset) extends the popular EmotionLines dataset, EmotionLines itself is not included here.
Name |
anger |
disgust |
fear |
joy |
neutral |
sadness |
surprise |
Crowdflower (2016) |
Yes |
- |
- |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Emotion Dataset, Elvis et al. (2018) |
Yes |
- |
Yes |
Yes |
- |
Yes |
Yes |
GoEmotions, Demszky et al. (2020) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
ISEAR, Vikash (2018) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
- |
Yes |
- |
MELD, Poria et al. (2019) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
SemEval - 2018, EI - reg, Mohammad et al. (2018) |
Yes |
- |
Yes |
Yes |
- |
Yes |
- |
The model is trained on a balanced subset from the datasets listed above (2,811 observations per emotion, i.e., nearly 20k observations in total). 80% of this balanced subset is used for training and 20% for evaluation. The evaluation accuracy is 66% (vs. the random - chance baseline of 1/7 = 14%).
Scientific Applications
Below you can find a list of papers using "Emotion English DistilRoBERTa - base". If you would like your paper to be added to the list, please send me an email.
- Butt, S., Sharma, S., Sharma, R., Sidorov, G., & Gelbukh, A. (2022). What goes on inside rumour and non - rumour tweets and their reactions: A Psycholinguistic Analyses. Computers in Human Behavior, 107345.
- Kuang, Z., Zong, S., Zhang, J., Chen, J., & Liu, H. (2022). Music - to - Text Synaesthesia: Generating Descriptive Text from Music Recordings. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00434.
- Rozado, D., Hughes, R., & Halberstadt, J. (2022). Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models. Plos one, 17(10), e0276367.
đģ Contact
Please reach out to jochen.hartmann@tum.de if you have any questions or feedback.
Thanks to Samuel Domdey and chrsiebert for their support in making this model available.
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Reference
For attribution, please cite the following reference if you use this model. A working paper will be available soon.
Jochen Hartmann, "Emotion English DistilRoBERTa - base". https://huggingface.co/j - hartmann/emotion - english - distilroberta - base/, 2022.
BibTex citation:
@misc{hartmann2022emotionenglish,
author={Hartmann, Jochen},
title={Emotion English DistilRoBERTa - base},
year={2022},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/j - hartmann/emotion - english - distilroberta - base/}},
}