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James C. Lester

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Preprint Jul 2026

The Story Shapes the Agent: Narrative Priors in LLM Behavior

It is suggested that LLM behavior that survives narrative changes should be grounded in concrete actions rather than abstract descriptions, and that persona effects that do transfer across narratives arise from behavioral anchors, persona descriptions whose language maps directly onto shared actions.

Yixuan Wang, James C. Lester, Shashank Srivastava · 0 citations