Detecting Emotion Drift in Mental Health Text Using Pre-Trained Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13363v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:18:12 GMT
• Title: Detecting Emotion Drift in Mental Health Text Using Pre-Trained Transformers
• Authors: Shibani Sankpal,
• Abstract summary: This study detects sentence-level emotions and measures emotion drift scores using pre-trained transformer models such as DistilBERT and RoBERTa.<n>The results provide insights into patterns of emotional escalation or relief in mental health conversations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This study investigates emotion drift: the change in emotional state across a single text, within mental health-related messages. While sentiment analysis typically classifies an entire message as positive, negative, or neutral, the nuanced shift of emotions over the course of a message is often overlooked. This study detects sentence-level emotions and measures emotion drift scores using pre-trained transformer models such as DistilBERT and RoBERTa. The results provide insights into patterns of emotional escalation or relief in mental health conversations. This methodology can be applied to better understand emotional dynamics in content.

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