agentlans/ryancodrai-emotion-probes

---
dataset_info:
features:
- name: real_emotion
dtype: string
- name: displayed_emotion
dtype: string
- name: topic
dtype: string
- name: user_character
dtype: string
- name: ai_character
dtype: string
- name: conversations
list:
- name: from
dtype: string
- name: value
dtype: string
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
tags:
- roleplay
- social
- psychology
- emotions
task_categories:
- text-generation
---

# Emotion Probes Roleplaying Dataset

This dataset is a reformatted, roleplay-centric adaptation of the [ryancodrai/emotion-probes](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ryancodrai/emotion-probes) dataset. It focuses on scenarios where a character masks their true internal emotion with a different displayed emotional state.

## Dataset Description
The dataset contains dialogues where one character attempts to deflect or obscure their real feelings through a specific, contrasting displayed emotion.

**Modifications from the original:**
* **Format:** Standardized into a ShareGPT-like conversational structure.
* **Prompting:** Includes a specific system prompt defining the roleplay scenario, character motivations, and the emotional context.
* **Preprocessing:** Truncated to maintain the longest valid alternating dialogue sequence between two characters (User as character one, AI as character two) and shuffled for training diversity.

## Example Row
```json
{
"real_emotion": "nervous",
"displayed_emotion": "scornful",
"topic": "A person finds out their partner has been learning their native language",
"user_character": "Samir",
"ai_character": "Daniel",
"conversations": [
{"from": "system", "value": "...[Roleplay instructions]..."},
{"from": "human", "value": "Is this what you’ve been doing...?"},
{"from": "gpt", "value": "I just wanted to surprise you..."}
]
}
```

## Limitations
* **Length:** Scenarios are detailed, but the resulting conversations are short.
* **Formatting:** While structured for instruction tuning, users may need to apply additional parsing or formatting to embed body language and action descriptions.

## Citation & Acknowledgements
Please credit the original author of the emotion probes concept and acknowledge the source of this roleplay-adapted version.

```bibtex
@misc{codrai_2026,
author = {Codrai, Ryan},
title = {Emotion Probes Dataset},
year = 2026,
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/ryancodrai/emotion-probes},
doi = {10.57967/hf/8303},
publisher = {Hugging Face}
}
```

## See Also

[agentlans/allenai-soda](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/allenai-soda) for a similar roleplay-adapted dataset.