Table 2.

The top 6 words associated with each emotion class, predicted by SpanEmo.

Emotion class			Associated words
Negative emotions
	Anger	death, think, public, virus, don’t, against
	Disgust	deaths, virus, against, because, public, after
	Fear	deaths, spread, symptoms, coronavirus, identify, self-reporting
	Sadness	deaths, going, cases, hospital, other, please
	Pessimism	sadly, family, friend, during, weeks, passed
Positive emotions
	Anticipation	support, vaccine, first, working, public, cases
	Joy	great, thank, support, happy, amazing, staysafe
	Trust	trust, thank, protect, important, community, everyone
	Love	happy, loved, share, beautiful, wonderful, amazing
	Optimism	please, thank, support, working, great, spread
	Surprise	shocking, surprised, amazing, public, absolutely, deaths