@inproceedings{shu-etal-2026-emotions, title = "Why Are Some Emotions Harder for {LLM}s? Uncovering the Causal Mechanisms of Emotion Inference via Sparse Autoencoders", author = "Shu, Bangzhao and Singh, Arinjay and ElSherief, Mai", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.559/", pages = "12821--12841", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }