  We introduce a new dataset for multi-class emotion analysis from long-form
narratives in English. The Dataset for Emotions of Narrative Sequences (DENS)
was collected from both classic literature available on Project Gutenberg and
modern online narratives available on Wattpad, annotated using Amazon
Mechanical Turk. A number of statistics and baseline benchmarks are provided
for the dataset. Of the tested techniques, we find that the fine-tuning of a
pre-trained BERT model achieves the best results, with an average micro-F1
score of 60.4%. Our results show that the dataset provides a novel opportunity
in emotion analysis that requires moving beyond existing sentence-level
techniques.
