Reading a new paper and people are still using Empath. I really do not recommend Empath as a tool for measuring lexical categories and biases: aclanthology.org/2021.acl-lon...

Bad Seeds: Evaluating Lexical Methods for Bias Measurement

Maria Antoniak, David Mimno. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume ...

Or to put it differently: if you're going to use a lexicon, explain why that lexicon is a good choice for your data and give some indication that you know what kinds of words are included in the lexicon.