diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/johnsnowlabs/nlp/annotators/sda/vivekn/ViveknSentimentModel.scala b/src/main/scala/com/johnsnowlabs/nlp/annotators/sda/vivekn/ViveknSentimentModel.scala
index b5dd23c6ec216a..213f8e9017a1e0 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/johnsnowlabs/nlp/annotators/sda/vivekn/ViveknSentimentModel.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/johnsnowlabs/nlp/annotators/sda/vivekn/ViveknSentimentModel.scala
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class ViveknSentimentModel(override val uid: String) extends AnnotatorModel[Vive
   override def annotate(annotations: Seq[Annotation]): Seq[Annotation] = {
     val sentences = Tokenized.unpack(annotations)
 
-    sentences.map(sentence => {
+    sentences.filter(s => s.indexedTokens.nonEmpty).map(sentence => {
       Annotation(
         annotatorType,
         sentence.indexedTokens.map(t => t.begin).min,