The psychophysics of affect in large language models
arXiv:2610.40985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Good decisions often require considering how outcomes will feel. Yet large language models (LLMs) increasingly enter decision workflows, despite little being known about how they map outcomes to feelings or use those mappings in…
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- arXiv:2610.40985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Good decisions often require considering how outcomes will feel
- Yet large language models (LLMs) increasingly enter decision workflows, despite little being known about how they map outcomes to feelings or use those mappings in…
The psychophysics of affect in large language models
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