Lessons Without Borders? Evaluating Cultural Alignment of LLMs Using Multilingual Story Moral Generation

arXiv:2604.08797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stories are key to transmitting values across cultures, but their interpretation varies across linguistic and cultural contexts. Thus, we introduce multilingual story moral generation as a novel culturally grounded evaluation task. Using a new dataset of human-written story morals collected across 14 language-culture pairs, we compare model outputs with human interpretations via semantic similarity, a human preference survey, and value categoriza