arXiv:2606.00129cs.LGcs.AI2026-06

发现大模型与人脑情绪信号共享一条情绪轴,且过度监督会适得其反。

A Shared Valence Axis Across Modern LLMs and Human EEG: The Saturation Regularity

论文配图:A Shared Valence Axis Across Modern LLMs and Human EEG: The Saturation Regularity
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  • 用9句话构建大模型情绪轴,跨14个模型验证一致性。
  • 人脑EEG数据中单线性投影即可追踪该情绪轴,36个分类器自发复现相同结构。
  • 提出饱和规律:额外监督反而降低性能,应聚焦残差空间的多样性提升。

大型语言模型(LLMs)作为强大的表征学习者,其内部特征与人类认知日益趋近。本文研究现代LLMs能否作为理解人脑神经表征的透镜,聚焦于EEG中的情感效价。我们仅用九句诱发情绪的句子,从现代LLMs中构建一维效价方向(V轴),并通过零样本迁移至情感基准测试和跨模型一致性(14个模型)进行验证。随后,我们发现该LLM推导的方向可映射至人类神经活动:在包含123名受试者的公开EEG队列中,对观看情感视频时的EEG特征进行单一线性投影,即可追踪每个刺激的V轴位置。此外,36个未接触过V轴的EEG情绪分类器,在训练过程中自发重新发现同一方向,表明语言模型与人类电生理信号中均存在相同的效价结构。然而,这种收敛并未提供有效训练信号。我们测试了25种对齐策略,包括知识蒸馏、表示相似性、对比损失和拓扑损失,均未能提升解码性能,其中16种显著降低准确率。我们将其形式化为‘饱和规律’:一旦任务标签使脑解码网络到达目标方向,额外监督主要扭曲已饱和的优化盆地,而承载判别力的类内残差获得极少有效梯度。该规律提示改进方向:应关注监督无法触及的残差子空间。基于此,我们通过集成残差多样性而非监督基底,使在FACED上的平衡准确率提升10.5%,该效果在SEED-V上同样复现。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful representation learners whose internal features increasingly align with human cognition. We study whether modern LLMs can serve as a lens for understanding neural representations in the human brain, focusing on emotional valence in EEG. We first build a one-dimensional valence direction, the V-axis, from modern LLMs using only nine emotion-evocative sentences. We validate it through zero-shot transfer to sentiment benchmarks and cross-model consistency across fourteen LLMs. We then show that this LLM-derived direction maps onto human neural activity. On a public EEG cohort of 123 subjects watching affective videos, a single linear projection on EEG features tracks the V-axis position of each stimulus. Moreover, 36 EEG emotion classifiers trained without exposure to the V-axis spontaneously rediscover the same direction in their internal representations, suggesting that the same valence structure emerges in both language models and human electrophysiology. Yet this convergence does not provide an effective training signal. We test twenty-five alignment strategies, including knowledge distillation, representational similarity, contrastive, and topographic losses; none improve decoding, and sixteen significantly reduce accuracy. We formalize this result as the saturation regularity: once task labels alone drive a brain-decoding network onto the target direction, additional supervision mainly distorts an already-saturated basin, while the load-bearing within-class residual receives little useful gradient. This regularity also indicates where improvement should come from: the residual subspace unreachable by supervision. Motivated by this insight, we ensemble across residual diversity rather than supervising the basin, improving balanced accuracy by 10.5% over the prior best on FACED, with the same effect replicated on SEED-V.

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