Fair or Foul? How LLMs ‘Appraise’ Emotions
TL;DR for operators Most enterprise “emotion AI” still treats emotion as a label: anger, sadness, fear, joy. That is tidy, dashboard-friendly, and psychologically thin. The CoRE paper asks a better question: when an LLM interprets an emotional situation, does it reason through the underlying cognitive appraisals that humans use — fairness, responsibility, control, effort, certainty, pleasantness, obstacles, and related dimensions? The answer is not “no”. It is more inconvenient: LLMs do show structure, but the structure is fragile. ...