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ToMStories: Interpreting Theory-of-Mind in Synthetic Narratives
Melanie Subbiah, Chia-En Jacklyn Tsai, Kathleen McKeown
Understanding people often requires inferring what they feel or want from how they behave rather than from what they state outright. We ask whether language models can make these i…
Empath: Tracing Multi-Level Emotion Dynamics in Crisis Counseling Dialogues
Ziwei Gong, Yuchen Huang, Wen Liang +4
Emotion dynamics are critical for understanding crisis-support conversations, yet most computational work treats emotion as static utterance-level labels. We introduce EMPATH, a fr…
Ownership in AI-Assisted Everyday Tasks
Megan Wei, Melanie Subbiah, Audrey Lee +4
When does work done with AI still feel like ours? As AI becomes woven into everyday tasks, we must examine what happens to our sense of ownership and contribution when a machine sh…
On the Limits of Steering Vectors for Preference-Aligned Generation
Melanie Subbiah, Zara Hall, Kathleen McKeown
Steering vectors have emerged as a promising approach to controlled text generation, offering interpretable, training-free mechanisms for shaping model outputs. However, their prac…
PolyAlign: Conditional Human-Distribution Alignment
L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Ufaq Khan, Sathira Silva +2
Post-training methods such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and preference optimization typically align language models toward a single global assistant behavior. While effective fo…
Whose Story Gets Told? Positionality and Bias in LLM Summaries of Life Narratives
Melanie Subbiah, Haaris Mian, Nicholas Deas +3
Increasingly, studies are exploring using Large Language Models (LLMs) for accelerated or scaled qualitative analysis of text data. While we can compare LLM accuracy against human…
Computational Representations of Character Significance in Novels
Haaris Mian, Melanie Subbiah, Sharon Marcus +2
Characters in novels have typically been modeled based on their presence in scenes in narrative, considering aspects like their actions, named mentions, and dialogue. This concepti…