arXiv:2608. 03810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models routinely describe socially salient targets, including political figures, countries, religions, organizations, historical events, and social groups, encoding affective framing alongside factual content: a target may appear favorable or threatening, calm or conflictual, powerful or vulnerable.
By Andrei Chetvergov, Alexander Evseev, Timofei Sivoraksha, Stepan Ukolov, Mikhail Solovev, Danil Sazanakov, Sergey Bolovtsov
arXiv:2609.22096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Climate campaigns are often evaluated through attention and mobilization, but less is known about the well-being language that accompanies them. Whethe...
By Wentao Xu
WELD is the first dataset that combines long‑term (30.1 months), naturalistic workplace recordings, a stable small‑team social structure, and a fully passive sensing protocol approved by institutional review boards. It contains 733,780 per‑frame seven‑class facial‑expression probability vectors from 49 employees of a Chinese software company, making it the longest in‑the‑wild emotion corpus that supports both within‑individual longitudinal and within‑team relational analyses. The authors validate the corpus by reproducing known affective phenomena and report four novel findings, including variance decomposition of daily valence, hidden Markov emotional regimes, turnover prediction metrics, and systematic over‑prediction of “angry” on neutral Asian faces by an off‑the‑shelf FER model.
By Xiao Sun
arXiv:2601. 07988v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While NLP typically treats documents as independent and unordered samples, in longitudinal studies, this assumption rarely holds: documents are nested within authors and ordered in time, forming person-indexed, time-ordered $\textit{behavioral sequences}$.
By Adithya V Ganesan, Vasudha Varadarajan, Oscar NE Kjell, Whitney R Ringwald, Scott Feltman, Benjamin J Luft, Roman Kotov, Ryan L Boyd, H Andrew Schwartz
arXiv:2601. 00181v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We address two persistent gaps in Emotion Recognition in Conversation: which modeling choices materially affect performance, and how recognition findings connect to interpretable discourse-level patterns.
By Cheonkam Jeong, Adeline Nyamathi
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