SocialReasonBench - Emotional Empathy: leaderboard

SocialReasonBench (2026) is a six-option video question-answering benchmark on counterfactual narrative clips from the game Detroit: Become Human, whose branching storylines let answers be checked against the game script and recorded branches. This board covers the 120 emotional empathy questions, asking how a character feels. Accuracy in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; the 120 emotional empathy questions of SocialReasonBench; six-option multiple-choice questions on counterfactual narrative gameplay clips of Detroit: Become Human, labels grounded in the game's script, flowchart and recorded branches; zero-shot, temperature 0 or 0.01; Gemini, Qwen3-Omni, MiniCPM-o and ARC-Hunyuan-Video read native video with audio, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GLM-4.6V-Flash 32 evenly sampled keyframes without audio). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o (2024-08-06)76.67#731
2Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620)73.33#684
3Gemini 3 Pro70#135
4Gemini 3 Flash66.67#159
5Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct61.67#902

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=socialreasonbench-emotional-empathy · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.