How does Suspenser choose which story events to tell to raise suspense, and what did its human evaluation show?

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S7, S8 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Suspenser (Cheong and Young) chooses a story's content from a planned fabula so that readers can infer few complete plans for the protagonist's goal: it keeps the causally important events as a skeleton, then swaps in events that threaten the protagonist's goals when that lowers the number of solutions the modeled reader can find. In a 98-person study with three fabulas, Suspenser's selections were rated as suspenseful as one human author's high-suspense selections and more than the same author's low-suspense selections, with moderate absolute ratings. The authors say the design cannot say which component caused the effect. Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S7, S8 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S7: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S8: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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