Cognition-Oriented Emotion Tracing from Causes to Consequences in Real-World Social Scenes
arXiv:2610.11410v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Affective computing has progressed from categorical emotion recognition to open-ended affective analysis with large multimodal models. Yet affective science describes emotion as an unfolding process shaped by appraisal, regulation, and social interpretation, which remains underexplored computationally. We propose TRACE, a cognition-oriented framework that formalizes an affective episode through three interrelated stages: Condition, Affect, and…