What it measures
This style index describes friendly, humorous, sincere and emotionally attentive responses.
How to read the result
Use the result to explore communication preferences for a product or audience.
Limits and comparison traps
More warmth is not a universal quality improvement. It does not establish empathy, factual reliability or sound judgment.
Where this fits in an evaluation suite
Format compliance, preference, truthfulness, and safety require separate measurements. Keep desirable writing style from masking factual errors.
Start with a capability hypothesis, then choose a second test with a different failure mode. Keep the checkpoint, reasoning effort, agent tools, sampling policy, and scoring procedure fixed when measuring a training intervention. Record failures and missing outputs in the denominator.
A reproducible comparison
Pin the benchmark release, task split, model configuration, tools, sampling budget, and evaluation harness described by the primary source.
Publish the exact run configuration, item coverage, score units, and available uncertainty. If a source supplies only an aggregate or a single run, preserve that limit. A new model name or a rounded score alone does not establish a capability improvement.
PRIMARY EVIDENCE & FURTHER READING
Reviewed 2026-10-26. Explanation and interpretation by RLTasks. Benchmark ownership remains with its original authors.