ettin-emotion-28-multilabel-68m

ettin-emotion-28-multilabel-68m

A 68M-parameter multi-label emotion classifier over the 28 GoEmotions categories, fine-tuned from jhu-clsp/ettin-encoder-68m (ModernBERT architecture, 8K context, mean pooling).

Unlike most public GoEmotions models — which are single-label (softmax, one emotion per text) and trained only on short Reddit comments — this model is genuinely multi-label (sigmoid, any number of co-occurring emotions) and is tuned to work on narration / roleplay prose: 3rd-person description, action asterisks, 2nd-person, inner monologue, and dialogue, where several emotions usually co-occur in one passage.

Labels (28)

admiration, amusement, anger, annoyance, approval, caring, confusion, curiosity, desire, disappointment, disapproval, disgust, embarrassment, excitement, fear, gratitude, grief, joy, love, nervousness, optimism, pride, realization, relief, remorse, sadness, surprise, neutral

Output is one independent sigmoid probability per label. Threshold each probability at 0.5 to get the multi-hot prediction — nothing else to look up. The per-class thresholds tuned on validation have already been folded into the classifier bias, so a flat 0.5 reproduces the tuned decisions (this is why thresholds.json lists 0.5 for every class). One consequence: the probabilities are calibrated so that 0.5 is the decision boundary, not so that the number reads as a confidence — don't interpret a raw sigmoid value as "% sure."

Results

Evaluated on 481 hand-checked roleplay passages (gold_rp), never seen in training. Baseline is joeddav/distilbert-base-uncased-go-emotions-student, the common off-the-shelf GoEmotions model, scored on the same set.

Micro-F1 by writing style (95% CI, conversation-level bootstrap):

The gap is largest exactly where the off-the-shelf model is out of distribution: multi-emotion narration.

Training data

• GoEmotions (SetFit multi-label variant, ~43k) — the in-domain Reddit anchor, natural ~33% neutral kept.
• LLM-generated narration/roleplay across all four styles, engineered around known LLM labeling failure modes so the synthetic data doesn't poison the classifier.
• Additional mined/prepped sources (EmpatheticDialogues, news, wiki, neutral mining).

Train/val split by conversation id (no passage leakage); the gold RP set is frozen and never trained on.

Usage (transformers)

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification

name = "chartreuse-verte/ettin-emotion-28-multilabel-68m"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(name)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(name).eval()

text = "*She backed away slowly, hands trembling, unsure if she could trust him.*"
enc = tok(text, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True, max_length=256)
with torch.no_grad():
    probs = torch.sigmoid(model(**enc).logits)[0]

labels = [model.config.id2label[i] for i in range(len(probs))]
for label, p in sorted(zip(labels, probs.tolist()), key=lambda x: -x[1])[:5]:
    print(f"{label:14s} {p:.2f}")
# nervousness 1.00 | confusion 0.80 | fear 0.48 | ...

Quantized / alternative runtimes

The root of this repo is the raw fp32 transformers weights. Quantized and alternative-runtime versions ship in subfolders:

• onnx/model.onnx — ONNX, fp32.
• onnx/model_quantized.onnx — ONNX dynamic int8, ~4× smaller, CPU-only, no torch. Agrees with the fp32 model on 98% of threshold decisions on the test set.
• gguf/*.gguf — f16 and q8_0 for llama.cpp. Converted with convert_hf_to_gguf.py; the 28 output labels are embedded in the GGUF metadata (modern-bert.classifier.output_labels). Requires a llama.cpp build with ModernBERT classification support. Apply sigmoid + threshold to the returned logits yourself.

ONNX int8 example (download the onnx/ folder + the root tokenizer):

import numpy as np, onnxruntime as ort
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("chartreuse-verte/ettin-emotion-28-multilabel-68m")
sess = ort.InferenceSession("onnx/model_quantized.onnx")
enc = tok("Thanks, that means a lot.", return_tensors="np", truncation=True, max_length=256)
feed = {i.name: enc[i.name] for i in sess.get_inputs()}
logits = sess.run(None, feed)[0][0]
probs = 1 / (1 + np.exp(-logits))   # sigmoid, multi-label

Notes & limitations

• Labels are 28 GoEmotions categories; nuance outside that taxonomy is collapsed.
• Gold labels and style tags are LLM-annotated, not fully human-reviewed — small differences are within labeling noise.
• Max sequence length used at train/eval time is 256 tokens (the base supports 8K).
• License: MIT (inherited from the Ettin base model).