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Narrative Flattening: How Post-Training Compresses Thematic, Affective, and Stylistic Variation in LLM Fiction

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Main Authors:	Li, Zehan, Zhu, Yutong, Wu, Siyang, Bao, Honglin, Evans, James A.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language
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