arXiv:2512. 04124v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier language models increasingly participate in conversations about distress and mental health, yet the mechanisms that generate anthropomorphic self narratives remain unclear.
By Afshin Khadangi, Hanna Marxen, Amir Sartipi, Igor Tchappi, Gilbert Fridgen
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
arXiv:2607. 18566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persona prompting is widely used to steer LLM agent behavior, yet the narrative framing of a task can matter more than the assigned persona.
By Yixuan Wang, James Lester, Shashank Srivastava
arXiv:2606. 07707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding emotional states from neural signals has been typically framed as a discrete, single-label classification task based on emotionally stable stimuli, a formulation that oversimplifies the continuous, fluid, and co-occurring nature of human affect.
By Lemei Zhang, Peng Liu, Hans Dahle Kvadsheim, August S{\ae}tre Aasv{\ae}r, Shuer Ye, Reza Bonyadi, Maryam Ziaei, Jon Atle Gulla
arXiv:2412. 15239v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Consumers' engagement with stories is shaped by their expectations about what will happen next, yet modeling these forward-looking beliefs over unstructured narrative content has remained challenging.
By Hortense Fong, George Gui, Bo Yang
arXiv:2607. 23317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Investigating how affective states such as confusion and frustration persist and transition during co-situated collaborative problem solving (CPS) is important for understanding the dynamics of epistemic emotions.
By Sifatul Anindho, Videep Venkatesha, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Nathaniel Blanchard