Do Emotion Concepts Generalize Across Sources, Modalities, and Architectures in Vision-Language Models?

arXiv:2609.34742 · cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Steering — 99× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 88× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 50× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 10× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Activation Steering — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AUC — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cross-Modal Emotion Stimuli — 2× in this paper
• Decode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Affective Computing — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Cross-Model Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Representation Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Cross-Architecture Steering Transfer in Language Models: A Systematic Empirical Study
• Qwen3-VL Technical Report
• Ministral 3
• Emergence of Hierarchical Emotion Organization in Large Language Models
• Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model
• Where Do Models Find Happiness? Emotion Vectors in Open-Source LLMs
• InternVL3.5: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Models in Versatility, Reasoning, and Efficiency
• Qwen-Image Technical Report
• Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

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