  The problem of determining if a military unit has correctly understood an
order and is properly executing on it is one that has bedeviled military
planners throughout history. The advent of advanced language models such as
OpenAI's GPT-series offers new possibilities for addressing this problem. This
paper presents a mechanism to harness the narrative output of large language
models and produce diagrams or "maps" of the relationships that are latent in
the weights of such models as the GPT-3. The resulting "Neural Narrative Maps"
(NNMs), are intended to provide insight into the organization of information,
opinion, and belief in the model, which in turn provide means to understand
intent and response in the context of physical distance. This paper discusses
the problem of mapping information spaces in general, and then presents a
concrete implementation of this concept in the context of OpenAI's GPT-3
language model for determining if a subordinate is following a commander's
intent in a high-risk situation. The subordinate's locations within the NNM
allow a novel capability to evaluate the intent of the subordinate with respect
to the commander. We show that is is possible not only to determine if they are
nearby in narrative space, but also how they are oriented, and what
"trajectory" they are on. Our results show that our method is able to produce
high-quality maps, and demonstrate new ways of evaluating intent more
generally.
