AI prompts offer a new tool for mapping how emotion concepts relate

AI prompts offer a new tool for mapping how emotion concepts relate

How similar are "joy" and "surprise"? Conversely, how far apart are "joy" and "sadness"? We naturally organize words that express emotions—such as "happy," "afraid," and "angry"—according to similarities and differences in their meanings. However, investigating this entire structure using human participants alone is not easy because the number of comparisons rises rapidly as more emotion terms are included.

AI Creates a Map of Human Emotions at Scientists’ Request

Emotion words may be easier to understand as points on a map than as isolated labels, according to a new study that used GPT-4 to reconstruct the semantic landscape of human feelings. Researchers at the Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute for Basic Biology, asked the language model to arrange emotion terms according to their meanings […]