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What Killed the Cat? Towards a Logical Formalization of Curiosity (And Suspense, and Surprise) in Narratives Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Florence Bosser, Anne-Gwenn Callac, Benjamin Maisel, Eric Knowledge Representation Narration Cognition We provide a unified framework in which the three emotions at the heart of narrative tension (curiosity, suspense and surprise) are formalized. This framework is built on non-monotonic reasoning which allows us to compactly represent the default behavior of the world and to simulate the affective evolution of an agent receiving a story. After formalizing the notions of awareness, curiosity, surprise and suspense, we explore the properties induced by our definitions and study the computational complexity of detecting them. We finally propose means to evaluate these emotions’ intensity for a given agent listening to a story. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr and Anne-Gwenn Bosser and Benjamin Callac and Eric Maisel 2024 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 318, 31st International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2024) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2024.10 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-212170 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2024.10 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode