# Emotion Prompting

> 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.

- Identifier: PTL-0082
- Category: Prompt Optimization
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/emotion-prompting/
- Also known as: EmotionPrompt, stimulus prompting
- Introduced: 2023

## 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.

## Related terms

- [Prompt Sensitivity](https://protologue.com/t/prompt-sensitivity/)
- [Role Prompting](https://protologue.com/t/role-prompting/)

## Sources

- Li et al. (2023). Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Emotion Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0082). https://protologue.com/t/emotion-prompting/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)