Language-specific representation of emotion-concept knowledge causally supports emotion inference
| Autor: | Ming Li, Yusheng Su, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Jiali Cheng, Xin Hu, Xinmiao Zhang, Huadong Wang, Yujia Qin, Xiaozhi Wang, Kristen A. Lindquist, Zhiyuan Liu, Dan Zhang |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | iScience, Vol 27, Iss 12, Pp 111401- (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2589-0042 40358518 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111401 |
| Popis: | Summary: Humans no doubt use language to communicate about their emotional experiences, but does language in turn help humans understand emotions, or is language just a vehicle of communication? This study used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) known as large language models (LLMs) to assess whether language-based representations of emotion causally contribute to the AI’s ability to generate inferences about the emotional meaning of novel situations. Fourteen attributes of human emotion concept representation were found to be represented by the LLM’s distinct artificial neuron populations. By manipulating these attribute-related neurons, we in turn demonstrated the role of emotion concept knowledge in generative emotion inference. The attribute-specific performance deterioration was related to the importance of different attributes in human mental space. Our findings provide a proof-in-concept that even an LLM can learn about emotions in the absence of sensory-motor representations and highlight the contribution of language-derived emotion-concept knowledge for emotion inference. |
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