[JacobAsmuth]

Are emotions actually salient parts of text or is that just because you have a human brain which is tuned to recognize emotions?

You're using "I find it easy to recognize emotions in text therefore it is a simple task", but we know for a fact that some tasks which are easy for humans are hard for LLMs, like counting objects in an image, while other tasks are easy for humans and easy for LLMs, like adding single-digit numbers.

It's not readily apparent to me that precisely modelling emotional state of the characters in a piece of text is the second and not the first, which you seem to assume. In fact, the work as presented seems to indicate that it's a class much closer to the first.