The usual question runs one way: can AI generate coherent narrative? This research reverses it, testing whether narrative structure fed *into* a model sharpens its reasoning and planning.

The answer is yes — story framing helps LLMs manage information space more effectively, implying that narrative and world-model cognition are more deeply entangled than the tooling debate typically assumes. If structured story is doing cognitive work for models, the architecture of prompts and contexts matters in ways the field is only beginning to account for.