GPT says: In recent years, in the Chinese context, the frequent mention of "emotional value" in gender relations is essentially a result of changes in relationship demand structures. It is not an abstract psychological term, but something very real and utilitarian.

"Emotional value" is being used as a quasi-product / quasi-service, and intimate relationships are being "commodified and transactionalized."

Exchanges have already occurred in reality:

I accompany you, I give you understanding, you give me relationships, sex, marriage, resources, security—it's just that everyone is too embarrassed to call it a transaction.

It sounds like "performance appraisal," not an intimate relationship. For many people, the first reaction to this term is: Am I about to start "delivering emotional KPIs"?