I would argue that sentiment classification is where LLMs perform best. folks are already using it for precisely such purpose - have even built a public index out of it
sorry dude. tried going down the rabbit hole but I'm too lazy and uninterested in it. read about it month ago or so. perhaps Daily News Sentiment Index uses LLMs, not sure. if you go long enough through https://quantocracy.com/ you should be able to find it