Cedar - Text-Only - Chinese: leaderboard

Culturally grounded emotion understanding on Cedar's 1,166 Chinese text-only scenarios: choose which of 14 emotions Chinese-speaking annotators assign, a label chosen because it differs across cultures for the same scenario. Accuracy (%) at temperature 0, higher is better (Cedar, Dai et al., Hefei University of Technology, ACL 2026).

Metric: Accuracy (%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2028. 16 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Sonnet 4.547.51#244
2Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking)43.22#451
3Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking)43.12#452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
4Gemma 3 27B (IT)40.85#1306
5Kimi K240.8#435
6GPT-4o (2024-11-20)40.34#864
7Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking)33.9#887
8Mistral Small 3.232.96#1592
9aya-10130.62#4382

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=cedar-text-only-chinese · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.