Veeresh Hiremath


2026

This paper studies the emotion as affective circumplex model representing valence and arousal in continuous two dimensional space. It also explores the disposition of emotion over time to identify the behavioural cues and self-identified affective states. while traditional methods use categorical emotion classes, SemEval 2026 Task 2 studies emotions in continuous space. In this paper, we proposes a transformer-based LongVA-RoBERTa model for emotion modeling in regression for ecological essays. For subtask 1 , we develop an affect prediction framework employing RoBERTa with attention pooling and a regression head for valence and arousal prediction. In subtask 2A , we employ BiLSTM to capture the temporal dependencies and fuse surface, contextual, user-level features to predict short-term affect variation. Our results outperform the baseline, paving ways to continue emotion prediction in continuous dimensional space