Thoughts on edge cases:
These are emotion based (what I mean by emotion based. Call them whatever you
want. It does not mean “emotional” – any explanation is going to embody some
emotion that correlates to the degree of emotion expressed in the prompt.)
Is this also emotion based?
The explanation is based on the agent’s (or agents’) emotion
The explanation is based on situation or action
The explanation is based on both
The explanation is based on one’s trait
The explanation is based on one’s goals/abilities/desires/thoughts
Other: free-response
 To categorize responses for better hypothesis/model, and address
limitations of emotion count
 i.e. Joint prompts elicit explanations that people perceive to be more
emotion-based
How emotion-based is this explanation? (3 Radio Buttons)
 To figure out if other categories have implications of being emotion-based and
should be included in that category (i.e. desires = emotion?)
How good of an explanation is this? Sliderbar
 To get an idea of how good each category is (i.e. People perceive trait-based
explanations to be good – therefore, need to be for the same subject)
(certainty vs good) do people find more certain responses better?
 run this with actual probability
(good according to which category), as prompts’ emotion varies
[as prompt gets more emotional, is emotional explanation better? (they are
obviously bigger in number, it’s not like they were asked to compare…)]
prompt emotion VS ‘good explanation’ ratings (color: category)
I ran the experiment and got the results for ("how strongly does this
sentence express an emotion?") - but that was for the prompts, because
getting the degree of emotions for the prompt was pretty arbitrary.
While the prompts can't be categorized as emotion/non-emotion,
explanations can. I am not interested in "how much" the explanation is
emotion-based, but rather in whether it is or not.
When I do the emotion word count, it is not to measure how emotional the
explanation is, but to label it. If the count comes out as > 0, the explanation
is emotion-based. If it is 0, then it isn't.
There is a difference between prompts and explanations, because I do not
directly give a certain emotion in prompts (i.e. my prompt can't be "I am
happy"). So you can't categorize my prompts as emotion-based/nonemotion based. However, there can be a degree of emotion
embedded/expressed by the prompt ("yelling"). This is different from what
I'm getting at with "emotion-based explanation," which means that an
explanation for something that happened is expressed as somebody's
emotions (Why is Sally humming? "because she was happy"), and not as a
situation (Why is Sally humming? "because John gave her a gift"), even
though both may be plausible (and one may be a consequence of
another). Here, categorizing something as "emotion-based" and not can be
binary.
I set the boundary between liking a person and liking an activity. For me,
liking someone and liking spending time with someone are very different.
Of course even if I say "I like dancing", it can be phrased to be "I feel good
when I dance", but that is an inference (you're adding more information) maybe I like dancing because it gives me a sense of thrill, not because I
feel "good". But liking someone/being attracted to someone is a distinct
feeling of its own. For example, I like him = I have feelings for him.
I would say that the emotion count is correct in not classifying "finds him
boring" as emotion-based but "is bored" as emotion-based. For example,
"Sarah cancelled the date with John because she finds him boring" is not
an emotion-based explanation (it's not that she feels boredom, she just
finds him to have the trait of being boring), but "Sarah was humming
because she was bored by John's presence" is emotion-based (she felt
boredom at the moment, and that is why she was humming).
I do agree with you that there are boundary cases, because I previously
argued that "finds her attractive" should be emotion-based because it is
equivalent to "feels attracted to her". I guess the only edge case I found to
be tricky so far was "like" and "attracted" (others were all pretty clear-cut
with the emotion-based lexicon), and I tried to reason that they are
emotion-based because they are about having feelings for another person.