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Steering Follows Geometry, Not Labels: Emotion Directions in a Full-Duplex Speech Model

2026-10-06 15:29:37
Pulak Kuli
arXiv_CL
         
Abstract

Full-duplex voice agents need to modulate emotion and delivery during real-time conversations, when de-escalating a complaint, carrying urgency in dispatch, softening a clinical result. Emotion and delivery control is well studied for TTS and turn based models through prompt-conditioned synthesis, reference-conditioned synthesis and activation steering; PersonaPlex controls identity in a duplex model but not affect. We study emotion steering in Moshi, a fully open sourced full-duplex speech language model, across four emotions, using mean-difference activation steering, which costs only a few vector additions per frame and no retraining. We show that emotion is linearly decodable from Moshi's residual stream, but activation steering is only partially achievable, and unevenly so; as happy, angry and surprise steer towards a shared direction while sad is distinctly steerable. We also show that the shared component across the three emotions cannot simply be projected away from all the emotions equally.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08887

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.08887.pdf

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