Steering Readerly Dynamics: Trajectory-Guided Story Generation with Large Language Models

The paper introduces a framework that learns readerly dynamics—how readers respond over time—from high‑quality human stories and uses these dynamics to steer large language model (LLM) story generation. Instead of modeling full story content, a small LLM predicts low‑dimensional trajectories of future reader responses, which a larger, instruction‑following writer LLM then follows to produce story segments. Experiments show the approach improves trajectory‑based fidelity to human stories by 12%–35% while largely maintaining coherence.

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