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 ## Dataset
 
-Each utterance is annotated with one of the seven emotions, *sad*, *mad*, *scared*, *powerful*, *peaceful*, *joyful*, and *neutral*.
+Each utterance is annotated with one of the seven emotions, *sad*, *mad*, *scared*, *powerful*, *peaceful*, *joyful*, and *neutral*, that are the primary emotions in the Feeling Wheel.
 
 * Latest release: [v1.0](https://github.com/emorynlp/emotion-detection/archive/character-mining-emotion-detection-1.0.tar.gz).
 * [Release notes](doc/release-notes.md).