My Words Imply Your Opinion: Reader Agent-Based Propagation Enhancement for Personalized Implicit Emotion Analysis

In implicit emotion analysis (IEA), the subtlety of emotional expressions makes it particularly sensitive to user-specific characteristics. Existing studies often inject personalization into the analysis by focusing on the authorial dimension of the emotional text. However, these methods overlook the potential influence of the intended reader on the reaction of implicit emotions. In this paper, we refine the IEA task to Personalized Implicit Emotion Analysis (PIEA) and introduce the RAPPIE model, a novel framework designed to address the issue of missing user information within this task. In particular, 1) we create reader agents based on the Large Language Model to simulate reader reactions, to address challenges of the spiral of silence and data incompleteness encountered when acquiring reader feedback information. 2) We establish a reader propagation role system and develop a role-aware emotion propagation multi-view graph learning model, which effectively deals with the sparsity of reader information by utilizing the distribution of propagation roles. 3) We annotate two Chinese PIEA datasets with detailed user metadata, thereby addressing the limitation of prior datasets that primarily focus on textual content annotation. Extensive experiments on these datasets indicate that the RAPPIE model outperforms current state-of-the-art baselines, highlighting the significance and efficacy of incorporating reader feedback into the PIEA process.