Expressing Social Emotions: Misalignment Between LLMs and Human Cultural Emotion Norms

ArXi:2604.16757v1 Announce Type: new The expression of emotions that serve social purposes, such as asserting independence or fostering interdependence, is central to human interactions and varies systematically across cultures. As LLMs are increasingly used to simulate human behavior in culturally nuanced interactions, it is important to understand whether they faithfully capture human patterns of social emotion expression.