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SAGE: A Hierarchical Framework for Evaluating Interpretive Literary Quality in Narratives

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 6, 2026 · UTC

Assessing the literary quality of narratives requires evaluating interpretive dimensions (cultural representation, emotional depth, and philosophical engagement) that existing NLG metrics cannot measure. We introduce SAGE, a six-layer evaluation framework that separates rule-based assessment of observable textual properties from LLM-based evaluation of interpretive qualities drawn from cultural theory, affect theory, and existentialist philosophy. Each interpretive layer is assessed through multi-round iterative LLM evaluation with independent cross-validation, achieving measurement-grade reli

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