cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it using this metadata and the Hugging Face DOI."
title: "Mental Spaces Corpus"
version: "0.1.0"
type: dataset
authors:
  - family-names: Steele
    given-names: Oliver
license: MIT
repository-code: "https://github.com/osteele/mental-spaces"
abstract: >-
  A controlled suite of natural-language stimuli for testing whether language
  models keep base-space and alternative-space discourse targets separate under
  mental-space constructions such as counterfactuals, belief contexts,
  depictive spaces, and nested spaces.
references:
  - type: article
    title: "One mechanism for many mental spaces: a shared router over a value slot in language models"
    authors:
      - family-names: Steele
        given-names: Oliver
      - family-names: Wen
        given-names: Jiangtao
      - family-names: Han
        given-names: Yuxing
    year: 2026
    url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10248"
  - type: article
    title: "Belief-reality separation lives in routing over a shared value slot in language models"
    authors:
      - family-names: Steele
        given-names: Oliver
      - family-names: Wen
        given-names: Jiangtao
      - family-names: Han
        given-names: Yuxing
    year: 2026
    url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11945"