AI RESEARCH
Internal narratives parameterise affective states
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2502.09487v3 Announce Type: replace Characterising how we verbalise our feelings is central to psychological assessment and intervention, yet the mapping between narrative and affective state remains poorly understood. Across two large studies (n=1257), we parameterised the structure and dynamics of depressive states by quantifying participants' internal narratives through large-language-model representations and their subspaces.