Honeyed Words, Hidden Daggers: Benchmarking and Training LLMs to See Through Mock Politeness
The Chinese idiom"kou mi fu jian"("honeyed words, hidden daggers") names speech that is polite in form but hostile in function. We present ZhenhuanBench, a 1,592-item benchmark built from expert commentary on Empresses in the Palace, covering speaker intent, emotion-language mismatch, and per-listener uptake. Text-only...