Our work on Detecting Suspense in Stories will appear at COLM'25 [arxiv.org/abs/2508.15794](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15794 )
Do LLMs know when stories are suspenseful?
We ran LLMs through a bunch of classical psychology suspense studies
The answer: kinda, sorta? Honestly, better than I expected. But the results are nuanced...
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