Task: Determine the appropriate ordinal class for the sentence, reflecting the mental state of the writer through various degrees of positive and negative sentiment intensity. 2: very positive, 1: positive, 0: neutral, -1: negative, -2: very negative.
Sentence: each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling never quite gets over its rather lopsided conception .
Intensity class: 