Narrative Divergence Prompt
A use episode in which a person enlists an AI system to generate unexpected narrative turns or alternative storylines for a creative or persuasive artefact such as a story, pitch, or argument. The referent is the request-and-use episode, not a property of the AI.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence is logged when a user issues a request whose explicit aim is to obtain a divergent or unexpected continuation of an existing narrative or argument (e.g. 'give me a surprising twist', 'what is an unexpected counter-move'). The observable marker is a divergence-seeking instruction directed at narrative or argumentative material.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Task-log content coding: prompts in a creative-writing corpus are labelled for divergence-seeking intent by two raters; rate could be reported as divergence requests per 100 task turns. Downstream uptake measured as the proportion of AI-proposed twists incorporated into the user's subsequent draft (acceptance rate); coder reliability via Cohen's kappa on the intent label.