EmoTrace: An Emotion Trajectory-Centered Framework for Psychological Support Dialogue Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23648v1
• Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:30:04 GMT
• Title: EmoTrace: An Emotion Trajectory-Centered Framework for Psychological Support Dialogue Generation
• Abstract summary: EmoTrace is a multi-turn dialogue corpus generation framework centered on modeling seekers' emotional trajectories.<n>We construct seekers' cognitive profile and introduce a seeker module with emotional schemas and an associated activation mechanism, a counselor module, and an emotional trajectory control module.<n> Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing approaches in terms of emotional richness and empathy quality.
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• Abstract: Using large language models (LLMs) to assist psychological counseling is an important task in the field of natural language processing. The construction of high-quality psychological support dialogue corpora serves as a critical foundation for training counseling-oriented conversational models. However, existing data generation approaches generally suffer from several limitations, including emotionally stable seekers, limited variation in emotional dynamics, and a high degree of compliance with counselors' guidance. These issues result in LLM that lack the capability to effectively respond to emotionally unstable scenarios. In addition, counselor responses are typically driven by problem-solving objectives, thereby overlooking the role of emotion-focused interaction, which are essential in psychological counseling. To address these gaps, we propose EmoTrace, a multi-turn dialogue corpus generation framework centered on modeling seekers' emotional trajectories. we construct seekers' cognitive profile and introduce a seeker module with emotional schemas and an associated activation mechanism, a counselor module, and an emotional trajectory control module, thereby enhancing the layering of the seeker's emotional expression and the counselor's targeted empathic expression. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing approaches in terms of emotional richness and empathy quality.

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