Cedar - Text-Only - Japanese: leaderboard

Culturally grounded emotion understanding on Cedar's 1,166 Japanese text-only scenarios: choose which of 14 emotions Japanese-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 2032. 16 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o (2024-11-20)42.97#864
2Kimi K239.66#435
3Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking)37.19#451
4Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking)36.31#452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
5Gemma 3 27B (IT)36.03#1306
6aya-10133.11#4382
7Mistral Small 3.231.77#1592
8Claude Sonnet 4.529.6#244
9Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking)28.24#887

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-japanese · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.