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EQ-Bench

Introduced by Samuel J. Paech in EQ-Bench: An Emotional Intelligence Benchmark for Large Language Models11 Dec 2023 archive 2025-07-28

This dataset contains benchmark scores for EQ-Bench, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate aspects of emotional intelligence in Large Language Models (LLMs). We assess the ability of LLMs to understand complex emotions and social interactions by asking them to predict the intensity of emotional states of characters in a dialogue. The benchmark is able to discriminate effectively between a wide range of models. We find that EQ-Bench correlates strongly with comprehensive multi-domain benchmarks like MMLU (Hendrycks et al., 2020) (r=0.97), indicating that we may be capturing similar aspects of broad intelligence. Our benchmark produces highly repeatable results using a set of 60 English-language questions. We also provide open-source code for an automated benchmarking pipeline at https://github.com/EQ-bench/EQ-Bench and a leaderboard at https://www.eqbench.com.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Emotional Intelligence EQ-Bench OpenAI gpt-4-0613 EQ-Bench Score 62.52 EQ-Bench: An Emotional Intelligence Benchmark for Large... eq-bench/eq-bench 24 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 13. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
EQ-Bench: An Emotional Intelligence Benchmark for Large Language Models 1 24 11 Dec 2023 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)

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License archive 2025-07-28

MIT

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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