{
  "id": 6349,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04992v1",
  "title": "FreakOut-LLM: The Effect of Emotional Stimuli on Safety Alignment",
  "summary": "Safety-aligned LLMs go through refusal training to reject harmful requests, but whether these mechanisms remain effective under emotionally charged stimuli is unexplored. We introduce FreakOut-LLM, a framework investigating whether emotional context compromises safety alignment in adversarial settings. Using validated psychological stimuli, we evaluate how emotional priming through system prompts affects jailbreak susceptibility across ten LLMs. We test three conditions (stress, relaxation, neut",
  "authors": "Daniel Kuznetsov, Ofir Cohen, Karin Shistik, Rami Puzis, Asaf Shabtai",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-05T13:37:52.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:24.292Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/6349",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04992v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}