diff --git a/public/script.js b/public/script.js
index 5433ce081..91d84ca44 100644
--- a/public/script.js
+++ b/public/script.js
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ import {
     delay,
     restoreCaretPosition,
     saveCaretPosition,
-    end_trim_to_sentence,
+    trimToEndSentence,
     countOccurrences,
     isOdd,
     sortMoments,
@@ -3781,7 +3781,7 @@ function cleanUpMessage(getMessage, isImpersonate, isContinue, displayIncomplete
     getMessage = getRegexedString(getMessage, isImpersonate ? regex_placement.USER_INPUT : regex_placement.AI_OUTPUT);
 
     if (!displayIncompleteSentences && power_user.trim_sentences) {
-        getMessage = end_trim_to_sentence(getMessage, power_user.include_newline);
+        getMessage = trimToEndSentence(getMessage, power_user.include_newline);
     }
 
     if (power_user.collapse_newlines) {
diff --git a/public/scripts/extensions/expressions/index.js b/public/scripts/extensions/expressions/index.js
index b8b7930df..7437d305f 100644
--- a/public/scripts/extensions/expressions/index.js
+++ b/public/scripts/extensions/expressions/index.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { dragElement, isMobile } from "../../RossAscends-mods.js";
 import { getContext, getApiUrl, modules, extension_settings, ModuleWorkerWrapper, doExtrasFetch, renderExtensionTemplate } from "../../extensions.js";
 import { loadMovingUIState, power_user } from "../../power-user.js";
 import { registerSlashCommand } from "../../slash-commands.js";
-import { onlyUnique, debounce, getCharaFilename } from "../../utils.js";
+import { onlyUnique, debounce, getCharaFilename, trimToEndSentence, trimToStartSentence } from "../../utils.js";
 export { MODULE_NAME };
 
 const MODULE_NAME = 'expressions';
@@ -709,12 +709,42 @@ async function setSpriteSlashCommand(_, spriteId) {
     await sendExpressionCall(spriteFolderName, spriteItem.label, true, vnMode);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Processes the classification text to reduce the amount of text sent to the API.
+ * Quotes and asterisks are to be removed. If the text is less than 300 characters, it is returned as is.
+ * If the text is more than 300 characters, the first and last 150 characters are returned.
+ * The result is trimmed to the end of sentence.
+ * @param {string} text The text to process.
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+function sampleClassifyText(text) {
+    if (!text) {
+        return text;
+    }
+
+    // Remove asterisks and quotes
+    let result = text.replace(/[\*\"]/g, '');
+
+    const SAMPLE_THRESHOLD = 300;
+    const HALF_SAMPLE_THRESHOLD = SAMPLE_THRESHOLD / 2;
+
+    if (text.length < SAMPLE_THRESHOLD) {
+        result = trimToEndSentence(result);
+    } else {
+        result = trimToEndSentence(result.slice(0, HALF_SAMPLE_THRESHOLD)) + ' ' + trimToStartSentence(result.slice(-HALF_SAMPLE_THRESHOLD));
+    }
+
+    return result.trim();
+}
+
 async function getExpressionLabel(text) {
     // Return if text is undefined, saving a costly fetch request
     if ((!modules.includes('classify') && !extension_settings.expressions.local) || !text) {
         return FALLBACK_EXPRESSION;
     }
 
+    text = sampleClassifyText(text);
+
     try {
         if (extension_settings.expressions.local) {
             // Local transformers pipeline
diff --git a/public/scripts/utils.js b/public/scripts/utils.js
index 121c97334..6ea5fc667 100644
--- a/public/scripts/utils.js
+++ b/public/scripts/utils.js
@@ -438,9 +438,9 @@ export function sortByCssOrder(a, b) {
  * @param {boolean} include_newline Whether to include a newline character in the trimmed string.
  * @returns {string} The trimmed string.
  * @example
- * end_trim_to_sentence('Hello, world! I am from'); // 'Hello, world!'
+ * trimToEndSentence('Hello, world! I am from'); // 'Hello, world!'
  */
-export function end_trim_to_sentence(input, include_newline = false) {
+export function trimToEndSentence(input, include_newline = false) {
     const punctuation = new Set(['.', '!', '?', '*', '"', ')', '}', '`', ']', '$', '。', '！', '？', '”', '）', '】', '】', '’', '」', '】']); // extend this as you see fit
     let last = -1;
 
@@ -465,6 +465,26 @@ export function end_trim_to_sentence(input, include_newline = false) {
     return input.substring(0, last + 1).trimEnd();
 }
 
+export function trimToStartSentence(input) {
+    let p1 = input.indexOf(".");
+    let p2 = input.indexOf("!");
+    let p3 = input.indexOf("?");
+    let p4 = input.indexOf("\n");
+    let first = p1;
+    let skip1 = false;
+    if (p2 > 0 && p2 < first) { first = p2; }
+    if (p3 > 0 && p3 < first) { first = p3; }
+    if (p4 > 0 && p4 < first) { first = p4; skip1 = true; }
+    if (first > 0) {
+        if (skip1) {
+            return input.substring(first + 1);
+        } else {
+            return input.substring(first + 2);
+        }
+    }
+    return input;
+}
+
 /**
  * Counts the number of occurrences of a character in a string.
  * @param {string} string The string to count occurrences in.
diff --git a/src/classify.mjs b/src/classify.mjs
index 46d959126..97062d84c 100644
--- a/src/classify.mjs
+++ b/src/classify.mjs
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ class PipelineAccessor {
  * @param {any} jsonParser
  */
 function registerEndpoints(app, jsonParser) {
+    const cacheObject = {};
     const pipelineAccessor = new PipelineAccessor();
 
     app.post('/api/extra/classify/labels', jsonParser, async (req, res) => {
@@ -35,10 +36,19 @@ function registerEndpoints(app, jsonParser) {
     app.post('/api/extra/classify', jsonParser, async (req, res) => {
         const { text } = req.body;
 
-        const pipe = await pipelineAccessor.get();
-        const result = await pipe(text);
+        async function getResult(text) {
+            if (cacheObject.hasOwnProperty(text)) {
+                return cacheObject[text];
+            } else {
+                const pipe = await pipelineAccessor.get();
+                const result = await pipe(text);
+                cacheObject[text] = result;
+                return result;
+            }
+        }
 
         console.log('Classify input:', text);
+        const result = await getResult(text);
         console.log('Classify output:', result);
 
         return res.json({ classification: result });