Task: Estimate the strength of emotion E in the tweet by assigning it a real-valued score between 0 and 1, where 0 signifies the least intensity and 1 signifies the greatest intensity.
Tweet: @AmyMek this is so absurd I could laugh right now (if I also didn't feel like crying for the future of our country). #despair #wakeupcall
Emotion: sadness
Intensity score: 
0.625