Neuron-Level Emotion Control in Speech-Generative Large Audio-Language Models
Large audio-language models (LALMs) can produce expressive speech, yet reliable emotion control remains elusive: conversions often miss the target affect and may degrade linguistic fidelity through refusals, hallucinations, or paraphrase. We present, to our knowledge, the first neuron-level study of emotion control in speech-generative LALMs and demonstrate that compact emotion-sensitive neurons (ESNs) are causally actionable, enabling training-free emotion steering at inference time. ESNs are identified via success-filtered activation aggregation enforcing both emotion realization and content preservation. Across three LALMs (Qwen2.5-Omni-7B, MiniCPM-o 4.5, Kimi-Audio), ESN interventions yield emotion-specific gains that generalize to unseen speakers and are supported by automatic and human evaluation. Controllability depends on selector design, mask sparsity, filtering, and intervention strength. Our results establish a mechanistic framework for training-free emotion control in speech generation.
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