@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-narrative,
    title = "Narrative Flattening: How Post-Training Compresses Thematic, Affective, and Stylistic Variation in {LLM} Fiction",
    author = "Li, Zehan  and
      Zhu, Yutong  and
      Wu, Siyang  and
      Bao, Honglin  and
      Evans, James",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2433/",
    pages = "55222--55251",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}