Modeling Protagonist Emotions for Emotion-Aware Storytelling

Understand

Emotions and their evolution play a central role in creating a captivating story.

• In this paper, we present the first study on modeling the emotional trajectory of the protagonist in neural storytelling.
• We design methods that generate stories that adhere to given story titles and desired emotion arcs for the protagonist.
• Our models include Emotion Supervision (EmoSup) and two Emotion-Reinforced (EmoRL) models.