I · Narrative
Belief tracking in deliberately misleading stories
Gemma 3 27B
Finding:DEGRADES· grade A(research conclusion)
43% correct (62/145)
Tested up to chain length 10, scramble 1.0, pronoun pressure 5, distractor events 20, witness cutoff 0.9
Pass rate
43%
Why it slips
The model answers where the object really is, not where the person believes it is.
in 89% of failures (83 failures)
Example failure
Evidence
- Ground truthDeterministic simulation: the right answer is computed, not judged
- StatisticsWilson 95% interval 35%–51%
- Sample size145 scored trials in total
- Fresh-seed confirmationNot run yet
- ReplicationNot run yet
Raw evidence