Empath: Tracing Multi-Level Emotion Dynamics in Crisis Counseling Dialogues

arXiv:2609.29056 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Terminology

• Accuracy — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative Model — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• African American Language — 5× in this paper
• Regret — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Crisis Text Line — 4× in this paper
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• EMMA — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Differentially Private — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Emotional Supporters often Use Multiple Strategies in a Single Turn
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• MentalBERT: Publicly Available Pretrained Language Models for Mental Healthcare
• Mistral 7B
• Harnessing large-language models to generate private synthetic text
• Can LLM-Simulated Practice and Feedback Upskill Human Counselors? A Randomized Study with 90+ Novice Counselors
• Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models
• Cultural Prompting Improves the Empathy and Cultural Responsiveness of GPT-Generated Therapy Responses

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