arXiv Computation and Language

"You are an expert annotator": Automatic Best-Worst-Scaling Annotations for Emotion Intensity Modeling

arXiv AI
Sep 18

YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Using Multiple Prediction Headers

The YNU-HPCC team participated in Subtask A of SemEval‑2025 Task 11, "Bridging the Gap in Text‑Based Emotion," using a RoBERTa model with a single prediction head to process one emotion at a time. Their system achieved an official ranking score of 0.44 across all languages after translating the dataset into English with Google Translate. Analysis showed that a single head outperformed six simultaneous heads and that training on the uniformly translated English data improved results.

By Hao Yang, Jin Wang, Xuejie Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Some Emotions Run Deeper: Layer-wise Probing and Causal Intervention in Large Language Models

The study examines how emotions are represented across layers of large language models (LLMs) by probing eight 1B–9B open‑weight models on three datasets (Twitter, Reddit, autobiographical narratives). It finds that the optimal probing layer varies systematically with the dataset, moving from near‑input layers to deeper layers, and that targeted forward‑pass interventions on these layers degrade performance more than random interventions. Additionally, the selected layers transfer across datasets and emotion categories, and early‑exit representations from these layers outperform full‑depth exits by an average of 6.9 percentage points.

By Tian Fang, Ga\"el Guibon, Davide Buscaldi