PTEI: Integrating Personality Traits to Enhance Emotional Intelligence in Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10245v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:20:03 GMT
• Title: PTEI: Integrating Personality Traits to Enhance Emotional Intelligence in Large Language Models
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel framework for integrating Personality Traits into Emotional Intelligence tasks using Large Language Models.<n>PteI, MBTI and OCEAN personality traits are first extracted directly from the given emotional scenarios and then utilized as contextual knowledge.<n>Experiments on established EI benchmarks show that PTEI enhances the Emotional Understanding capabilities of various LLMs, with the strongest improvement observed in GPT models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite advances in Emotional Intelligence (EI), Large Language Models (LLMs) still significantly underperform humans in complex emotional reasoning. This gap originates partly from the limited incorporation of individual differences, particularly personality traits, which are fundamental to human emotional inference. To address this, we propose PTEI, a novel framework for integrating Personality Traits into Emotional Intelligence tasks using LLMs. In PTEI, MBTI and OCEAN personality traits are first extracted directly from the given emotional scenarios and then utilized as contextual knowledge within personality-aware prompts, guiding LLMs to accurately infer emotions and their underlying causes. To ensure optimal contextual grounding, we employ Contrastive Learning to construct an optimized retrieval system that surfaces emotionally and personally aligned scenarios, enhancing reasoning quality. Extensive experiments on established EI benchmarks show that PTEI enhances the Emotional Understanding (EU) capabilities of various LLMs, with the strongest improvement observed in GPT models. Combining PTEI with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning yields an additional 4 percent increase in accuracy. These findings underscore PTEI's contribution toward advancing AI systems with more sophisticated social and psychological grounding.

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