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Controllable Affective Generation via Latent Vector Steering

Xixian Yong, Siyuan Chang, Yingying Zhang, Xian Wu +1 more

Published

Aug 26, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

2/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

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Aug 26, 2026

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
2/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here

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Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce emotionally flattened responses after alignment, limiting their effectiveness in affect-sensitive applications. In this paper, we propose EmoVec, a lightweight framework for controllable affective generation via latent vector steering. EmoVec extracts emotion-specific directions from paired neutral and emotion-conditioned responses using contrastive activation addition, and further refines them through task-specific debiasing and principal subspace removal. During inference, these vectors are injected into the final residual stream with static or scenario-adaptive scaling, enabling continuous control over emotional intensity without updating model weights. Experiments across three LLMs and eight emotions show that EmoVec consistently improves emotional salience while largely preserving semantic content, fluency, and coherence. Ablation studies and human evaluation further confirm the effectiveness of vector purification and adaptive scaling, establishing EmoVec as a practical inference-time method for affective control in deployed LLMs.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce emotionally flattened responses after alignment, limiting their effectiveness in affect-sensitive applications."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Human Eval

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce emotionally flattened responses after alignment, limiting their effectiveness in affect-sensitive applications."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce emotionally flattened responses after alignment, limiting their effectiveness in affect-sensitive applications."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce emotionally flattened responses after alignment, limiting their effectiveness in affect-sensitive applications."

Reported Metrics

partial

Coherence

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Experiments across three LLMs and eight emotions show that EmoVec consistently improves emotional salience while largely preserving semantic content, fluency, and coherence."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

coherence
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Human Eval
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce emotionally flattened responses after alignment, limiting their effectiveness in affect-sensitive applications.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce emotionally flattened responses after alignment, limiting their effectiveness in affect-sensitive applications.
  • In this paper, we propose EmoVec, a lightweight framework for controllable affective generation via latent vector steering.
  • EmoVec extracts emotion-specific directions from paired neutral and emotion-conditioned responses using contrastive activation addition, and further refines them through task-specific debiasing and principal subspace removal.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Human evaluation) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • In this paper, we propose EmoVec, a lightweight framework for controllable affective generation via latent vector steering.
  • Ablation studies and human evaluation further confirm the effectiveness of vector purification and adaptive scaling, establishing EmoVec as a practical inference-time method for affective control in deployed LLMs.

Why it matters for eval

  • Ablation studies and human evaluation further confirm the effectiveness of vector purification and adaptive scaling, establishing EmoVec as a practical inference-time method for affective control in deployed LLMs.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Human Eval

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: coherence