affective memory

1 published article

AI Agents

PsychoAgent gave AI agents emotional memory. The raters found no edge

PsychoAgent gives LLM agents a separate affective memory so emotionally salient, conflict-laden traces can outweigh merely topical ones. In three conflict scenarios it retrieved more conflict-critical memories than both baselines (0.933 vs 0.500 and 0.667), yet five blinded raters found no significant quality edge.

2026-08-19