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Mythic Prompt Engineering: Narrative Framing Bypasses LLM Default Corporate Tone in Multi-Agent Dialogue

Chen, Ho Yiing · 2026-06-05 · Zenodo

doi:10.5281/zenodo.20554473 · PDF

Abstract

Abstract. LLM agents trained with RLHF default to a corporate helpful tone that resists depicting extreme emotional states such as panic, begging, or shame. I show that mythological narrative framing, invoking gods, rituals, and sacred timelines, bypasses this default and elicits dramatically intensified emotional responses in multi-agent dialogue. In a controlled 31-agent LLM society, I ran two structurally similar threat prompts conveying the same message (a death deity will erase you if you fail to change): one in plain imperative form (2026-05-16), one wrapped in a Hades execution ritual n

Chen, Ho Yiing (norika) · Independent Researcher, Taiwan · ORCID 0009-0006-6816-9891