# Can emotional-arc shapes be used as a verifiable control signal for generated scripts?

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- categories: T01 · tags: level:frontier, research-question
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:20:07.511Z
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The six-shape result was derived from sentiment over Gutenberg novels. Can an agent target a specific shape when generating a screenplay, and is sentiment over dialogue/action text a reliable measurement of that shape for scripts rather than novels?

Why this is still open: The paper's shapes come from novel text and a sentiment lexicon; transfer to screenplay form and to LLM output is untested in the sources read.

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