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Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Large language models (LLMs) show promising capabilities in predicting human emotions from text. However, the mechanisms through which these models process emotional stimuli remain largely unexplored. Our study addresses this gap by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ala N. Tak , Amin Banayeeanzade , Anahita Bolourani , Mina Kian , Robin Jia , Jonathan Gratch

Human emotions are often not expressed directly, but regulated according to internal processes and social display rules. For affective computing systems, an understanding of how users regulate their emotions can be highly useful, for…

This paper delves into enhancing the classification performance on the GoEmotions dataset, a large, manually annotated dataset for emotion detection in text. The primary goal of this paper is to address the challenges of detecting subtle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kaipeng Wang , Zhi Jing , Yongye Su , Yikun Han

Large Language Models primarily operate through text-based inputs and outputs, yet human emotion is communicated through both verbal and non-verbal cues, including facial expressions. While Vision-Language Models analyze facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Vaibhav Mehra , Guy Laban , Hatice Gunes

Large language models (LLMs) not only exhibit human-like performance but also share computational principles with the brain's language processing mechanisms. While prior research has focused on mapping LLMs' internal representations to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Maryam Rahimi , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Mohammad Reza Daliri

In affective neuroscience and emotion-aware AI, understanding how complex auditory stimuli drive emotion arousal dynamics remains unresolved. This study introduces a computational framework to model the brain's encoding of naturalistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Guandong Pan , Yaqian Yang , Shi Chen , Xin Wang , Longzhao Liu , Hongwei Zheng , Shaoting Tang

Emotion is a central dimension of spoken communication, yet, we still lack a mechanistic account of how modern large audio-language models (LALMs) encode it internally. We present the first neuron-level interpretability study of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xiutian Zhao , Björn Schuller , Berrak Sisman

Language, as an information medium created by advanced organisms, has always been a concern of neuroscience regarding how it is represented in the brain. Decoding linguistic representations in the evoked brain has shown groundbreaking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yu Wang , Heyang Liu , Yuhao Wang , Chuan Xuan , Yixuan Hou , Sheng Feng , Hongcheng Liu , Yusheng Liao , Yanfeng Wang

This work investigates the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in detecting and understanding human emotions through text. Drawing upon emotion models from psychology, we adopt an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Florian Lecourt , Madalina Croitoru , Konstantin Todorov

Empathetic and coherent responses are critical in auto-mated chatbot-facilitated psychotherapy. This study addresses the challenge of enhancing the emotional and contextual understanding of large language models (LLMs) in psychiatric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Abdur Rasool , Muhammad Irfan Shahzad , Hafsa Aslam , Vincent Chan , Muhammad Ali Arshad

Emotions play a central role in human communication, shaping trust, engagement, and social interaction. As artificial intelligence systems powered by large language models become increasingly integrated into everyday life, enabling them to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Soumya Dutta

While recent studies have examined the leaning impact of large language model (LLM) in educational contexts, the affective dynamics of LLM-mediated tutoring remain insufficiently understood. This work introduces the first ensemble-LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Chenyu Zhang , Sharifa Alghowinem , Cynthia Breazeal

Understanding whether large language models (LLMs) and the human brain converge on similar computational principles remains a fundamental and important question in cognitive neuroscience and AI. Do the brain-like patterns observed in LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yu Lei , Xingyang Ge , Yi Zhang , Yiming Yang , Bolei Ma

Affective reactions have deep biological foundations, however in humans the development of emotion concepts is also shaped by language and higher-order cognition. A recent breakthrough in AI has been the creation of multimodal language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zaira Romeo , Alberto Testolin

Affective Computing (AC) integrates computer science, psychology, and cognitive science to enable machines to recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions across domains such as social media, finance, healthcare, and education. AC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yiqun Zhang , Xiaocui Yang , Xingle Xu , Zeran Gao , Yijie Huang , Shiyi Mu , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang , Kaisong Song , Ge Yu

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have highlighted the need for robust, comprehensive, and challenging benchmarks. Yet, research on evaluating their Emotional Intelligence (EI) is considerably limited. Existing benchmarks have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Sahand Sabour , Siyang Liu , Zheyuan Zhang , June M. Liu , Jinfeng Zhou , Alvionna S. Sunaryo , Juanzi Li , Tatia M. C. Lee , Rada Mihalcea , Minlie Huang

In the past years, sentiment analysis has increasingly shifted attention to representational frameworks more expressive than semantic polarity (being positive, negative or neutral). However, these richer formats (like Basic Emotions or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

The emotions we experience involve complex processes; besides physiological aspects, research in psychology has studied cognitive appraisals where people assess their situations subjectively, according to their own values (Scherer, 2005).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongli Zhan , Desmond C. Ong , Junyi Jessy Li

The embodiment of emotional reactions from body parts contains rich information about our affective experiences. We propose a framework that utilizes state-of-the-art large vision-language models (LVLMs) to generate Embodied LVLM Emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mohammad Saim , Phan Anh Duong , Cat Luong , Aniket Bhanderi , Tianyu Jiang