Feeling Rules in Language Models: Mapping Norms of Emotional Appropriateness Across Roles, Institutions, and Intensity (CCF A)
Published in Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026, 2026
This paper maps norms of emotional appropriateness in language models across roles, institutions, and intensity, revealing how feeling rules are encoded and expressed in LLMs.
Keywords: Feeling Rules, Language Models, Emotional Norms, Emotional Appropriateness, Roles, Institutions
Track: Main Conference
Recommended citation: Fan, G., Liu, D., Sabri, A.Q.M., Zhang, R., & Pan, L. (2026). Feeling Rules in Language Models: Mapping Norms of Emotional Appropriateness Across Roles, Institutions, and Intensity. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026). ACL.
