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Beyond Emotion Prompts: Fine-Grained Text-to-Image Generation Driven by Valence-Arousal-Dominance

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Although text-to-image models can accurately depict subjects and scenes, creators still struggle to specify the fine-grained emotions an image should convey without rewriting its content description. Natural language can suggest emotions, but it offers no control scale with stable meanings and ordered intensities. We propose EMOTRANS, which transforms psychologically grounded valence-arousal-dominance (VAD) coordinates into generation conditions that are independent of the content text and modulated across denoising stages, making emotional style a finely adjustable creative variable. To suppo

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