---
language: "en"
tags:
- distilroberta
- sentiment
- emotion
- twitter
- reddit

widget:
- text: "Oh my God, he’s lost it. He’s totally lost it."
- text: "What?"
- text: "Aww, man, that sucks!"

---

# Fine-tuned DistilRoBERTa-base for Emotion Classification 🤬🤢😀😐😭😲

# Model Description 

DistilRoBERTa-base is a transformers model, which is pre-trained on the Friends show to classify emotions from text data. It predicts 6 Ekman emotions and a neutral class. These emotions include anger, disgust, fear, joy, neutral, sadness, and surprise.

The model is a fine-tuned version of [Emotion English DistilRoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-base/) and [DistilRoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-base).

# How to Use 

```python
from transformers import pipeline
classifier = pipeline("sentiment-analysis", model="michellejieli/emotion_text_classifier")
classifier("I love this!")
```

```python
Output:
[{'label': 'joy', 'score': 0.9887555241584778}]
```

# Contact

Please reach out to [michelle.li851@duke.edu](mailto:michelle.li851@duke.edu) if you have any questions or feedback.


# Reference

```
Jochen Hartmann, "Emotion English DistilRoBERTa-base". https://huggingface.co/j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-base/, 2022.
```