{
  "id": "emotion-prompting",
  "code": "PTL-0082",
  "term": "Emotion Prompting",
  "aliases": [
    "EmotionPrompt",
    "stimulus prompting"
  ],
  "category": "optimization",
  "definition": "Emotion prompting appends emotional or motivational phrases, such as \"This is very important to my career,\" to a prompt in an attempt to improve model performance.",
  "description": "Li et al. reported gains on several benchmarks with such \"EmotionPrompt\" stimuli. Effects of these cues vary across models and tasks and are best treated as an empirical question for each setup.",
  "example": null,
  "broader": [],
  "narrower": [],
  "related": [
    "prompt-sensitivity",
    "role-prompting"
  ],
  "introduced": 2023,
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli",
      "authors": "Li et al.",
      "year": 2023,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://protologue.com/t/emotion-prompting/",
  "citation": "Protologue. (2026). Emotion Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0082). https://protologue.com/t/emotion-prompting/"
}