 Model Details **Model Description:** This model is a fine-tuned checkpoint of [RoBERTA-base](https://huggingface.co/roberta-base), fine-tuned for Track 1 of the[WASSA 2022 Shared Task](https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.20.pdf) - predicting empathy and distress scores on a dataset of reactions to news stories. This model attained an average Pearson's correlation (r) of 0.416854 on the dev set (for comparison, the top team had an average r of .54 on the test set ).  