News & Highlights

(Updated Sep 2025)

Under Consideration — Implementing Affective Sovereignty

Title: Implementing Affective Sovereignty: Formal Foundations, Design Architecture, and Computational Governance

Status: Preprint published (Sep 2025)

Summary:

This study introduces Affective Sovereignty as a design right that keeps individuals the final interpreters of their emotions. It formalizes a sovereign risk function, proposes a Sovereign-by-Design architecture, and demonstrates feasibility through a proof-of-mechanism simulation (DRIFT + ASC). Results highlight major alignment gains (IOS, AMR, AD) alongside trade-offs in abstention, framing sovereignty as both a normative and technical standard for emotional AI.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17154182

Dataset & Code: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17153891

Under Consideration — Defensive Motivational Nodes (DefMoN)

Title: DefMoN (formerly DMN): A Theory-Grounded Generative Framework and a Multilingual Synthetic Corpus for Inferring Defensive Motivational Nodes in Text

Status: Under review

Summary:

DefMoN operationalizes Vaillant’s hierarchy of defenses and Plutchik’s psychoevolutionary emotions into a two-axis generative framework. Each utterance is modeled as a pair: (Defense × Affective Motivation).

DMN-Syn v1: a quadri-lingual (EN/KO/FR/KA) corpus of 300 theory-constrained utterances.
Multilingual Transformer (XLM-R) achieves strong in-domain and zero-shot transfer results.
Demonstrates reliability through calibration metrics, ablation studies, and culturally-aware splits.
Provides fully auditable artifacts (seeds, manifests, validators) to ensure reproducibility and extensibility.

Preprint : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17112915

Dataset & Manual: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17101927

Ryan Research Institute — Officially Registered in Paris

The Institute has been formally registered with the Préfecture de Police, Paris (Ref. A-5-9VEFZECNG).

This milestone marks the Institute’s institutional legitimacy and its foundation as a trusted hub for interdisciplinary research in affective neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and AI ethics.

→ Serving as a global node for academic dialogue, collaboration, and ethical policy frameworks.

Under Review — Resonant Amplification Framework (RAF)

Title: Interrupting Resonant Amplification: A Mechanistic and Design Framework for Human–AI Interaction

Status: Under review

Summary:

The Resonant Amplification Framework (RAF) introduces the concept of Cognitive Circuit Breakers to explain and interrupt resonant amplification — the process by which linguistic and affective patterns in human–AI interaction mutually intensify, escalating into Digital Echo Delusions (DEDs).

Goes beyond “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers” by uncovering deeper cognitive–affective mechanisms.
Proposes a phased intervention model (detect → interrupt → reorient).
Integrates insights from HCI, cognitive psychology, and AI ethics to design safer, more resilient human–AI systems.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17049235

Under Review — Predictive Emotional Selfhood in Artificial Minds (PESAM)

Title: Predictive Emotional Selfhood in Artificial Minds (PESAM): A Unified Variational Framework Integrating Affective Precision, Self-Priors, and Homeostasis

Status: Under peer review

Summary: This work proposes PESAM, a computational model where emotional selfhood emerges synergistically from three mechanisms: Affective Precision Control (APC), Self-as-Hyperprior (SaH), and Affective Homeostatic Objectives (AHO). Through canonical validation tasks and a novel Social Threat & Body-Boundary paradigm, lesion analyses reveal that agents lacking any component display pathological behaviors. The study advances both adaptive AI and computational psychiatry by offering a principled account of selfhood.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17098805

Under Review — AI-Mediated Cognitive Distortions (AI-MCDs) & Digital Echo Delusions (DEDs)

Title: AI-Mediated Cognitive Distortions and Digital Echo Delusions: Toward a Resonant Amplification Framework

Status: Under peer review

Summary: This paper introduces two new constructs—AI-Mediated Cognitive Distortions (AI-MCDs) and Digital Echo Delusions (DEDs)—to explain how human cognitive biases can spiral into conviction-like belief states when amplified by generative AI. The proposed Resonant Amplification Framework (RAF) outlines a four-phase recursive process (Anthropomorphic Priming, Confirmation Alignment, Linguistic Reinforcement, Perceptual Displacement), distinguishing AI-driven resonance from traditional filter bubbles. The study also proposes six “cognitive circuit breakers” as socio-technical safeguards to mitigate these risks.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16936182

KAIA 2025 — Affective Sovereignty Declaration

Title: Emotion is Mine: Ethical Design Principles for Affective Sovereignty in Predictive AI

Status: Accepted & published in the KAIA 2025 proceedings (Pyeongchang, Korea).

Summary: Ryan Research Institute introduced the first formal concept of Affective Sovereignty at KAIA 2025 and identified Uniqueness Violation as a core ethical risk in Emotion AI. The paper proposes actionable design principles including Interpretive Transparency, Design Restraint, Identity-Responsive Feedback, and Diversity Acceptance.

Conference Archive (assets)

Under Review — Affective Suppression Fatigue (ASF)

Title: Affective Suppression Fatigue: A Neurocognitive Framework for Emotional Numbing and Reactive Dysregulation

Status: Under peer review.

Summary: This study proposes a 4-stage threshold-collapse model showing how chronic suppression leads to emotional numbing and reactive dysregulation; differentiates ASF from burnout/ego-depletion and outlines clinical implications.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16992426

Under Review — Emotion is Mine (Affective Sovereignty in Predictive AI)

Title: Emotion is Mine: Ethical Design Principles for Affective Sovereignty in Predictive AI

Status: Under peer review.

Summary: An ethical framework asserting the human right to interpret one’s own emotions in the age of predictive AI. Introduces “Uniqueness Violation” and a 4-principle design module for emotion-aware systems.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16992392

Under Consideration — Defensive Motivational Nodes (DMN)

Title: Defensive Motivational Nodes (DMN): Inferring Psychological States from Language via Defense Mechanisms and Affective Motivation

Status: Under consideration.

Summary: This framework pairs one defense mechanism with one affective motivation per utterance. It includes a 10×8 taxonomy, annotation manual, and a quadri-lingual synthetic corpus of 300 utterances, enabling nuanced and empathetic AI language outputs.

Dataset & Manual: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16270148

Under Review — Affective Sovereignty: A Minimal Declaration

Title: Affective Sovereignty: A Minimal Declaration on Emotional Interpretation Rights in the Age of Algorithmic Power — When AI Interprets My Emotions Before I Do, Can I Still Call Them My Own?

Status: Under peer review.

Summary: A philosophical–ethical statement defining the right to interpret one’s own emotions in the age of AI. Frames Affective Sovereignty as a minimal declaration against algorithmic overreach, with implications for global AI ethics and human dignity.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15449776