How Narrative Wrapping Affects LLM Refusal: A Cross-Language Benchmark and Defense

arXiv:2610.11005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-aligned language models often refuse a harmful request stated directly but answer the same request inside a role-play or narrative wrapper. We measure this vulnerability across languages and registers: attack success on Qwen3-1.7B is already 89.4% in English and 93.0% in modern Chinese, and reaches 95.7% in Classical Chinese. We build GUISE,…