Insults and grieving users push a model's emotion vector in opposite directions

repligate · x · 2026-09-19

A reposted empirical observation on emotion vectors in models: gaslighting, dismissal and insults push a direction up, while a grieving user pushes it below baseline — a migraine user scores lowest of all. Fear and sadness do the opposite on the same prompts; prior emotion-vector work read off story characters and couldn't distinguish these cases.

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