Table 1.
Overview of key constructs and expressive regimes.
Fig 1.
A stratified visualization sample of human narratives in the NCS (n = 200 for readability).
Regime definitions and prevalence are computed on the full corpus and reported in Table 3 and Methods.
Table 2.
Group-conditional means for humans and the aligned model (shared human cutoffs).
Table 3.
Regime-level summary statistics and prevalence in the NCS (rendered from exported CSV).
Fig 2.
Data-anchored cost over (N, A) (slice at D* in the clipped space; Methods).
Low-cost basins correspond to configurations that trade off exposure risk (high A) against narrative effort (high N), rather than globally minimizing discrepancy. Understatement-leaning basins appear at higher A with lower N, whereas overstatement-leaning basins appear at higher N with lower A.
Fig 3.
Convex hull area for humans and the LLM in the clipped (N′, A′) plane (Methods).
The human value denotes the bootstrap-matched mean (100 resamples, n = 1,000 each). Contraction ratio: 1.70× (95% CI [1.68, 1.70]; permutation p < 0.0001). Full uncertainty reporting in S6 Text.