Persona-E$^2$: A Human-Grounded Dataset for Personality-Shaped Emotional Responses to Textual Events

arXiv:2604.09162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most affective computing research treats emotion as a static property of text, focusing on the writer's sentiment while overlooking the reader's perspective. This approach ignores how individual personalities lead to diverse emotional appraisals of the same event. Although role-playing Large Language Models (LLMs) attempt to simulate such nuanced reactions, they often suffer from "personality illusion'' -- relying on surface-level stereotypes rat