M. Y. Zuo comments on Cosmopolitan values don’t come free

[M. Y. Zuo]

I mean that if you tell a story about the AI or aliens killing everyone, then the valence of the story is really tied up with the facts that (i) they killed everyone, and weren’t merely “not cosmopolitan,” (ii) this is a reasonably likely event rather than a possibility.

I take it ‘valence’ here means ‘emotional valence’, i.e. the extent to which an emotion is positive or negative?