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Controllable Affective Generation via Latent Vector Steering

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce emotionally flattened responses after alignment, limiting their effectiveness in affect-sensitive applications. In this paper, we propose EmoVec, a lightweight framework for controllable affective generation via latent vector steering. EmoVec extracts emotion-specific directions from paired neutral and emotion-conditioned responses using contrastive activation addition, and further refines them through task-specific debiasing and principal subspace removal. During inference, these vectors are injected into the final residual stream with static or scen

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