Inside Out: How LLMs Are Learning to Feel (and Misfeel) Like Us
When Pixar’s Inside Out dramatized the mind as a control room of core emotions, it didn’t imagine that language models might soon build a similar architecture—on their own. But that’s exactly what a provocative new study suggests: large language models (LLMs), without explicit supervision, develop hierarchical structures of emotions that mirror human psychological models like Shaver’s emotion wheel. And the larger the model, the more nuanced its emotional understanding becomes. ...