Visualization of Soseki Natsume's "Kokoro"
This artwork is a visualization generated from numerical data extracted from Soseki Natsume's literary masterpiece, Kokoro, using a proprietary analytical engine (BiblioEngine).
While the fluctuations in AI-driven analysis—often referred to as "hallucinations"—have traditionally been avoided, I have identified a profound structural similarity between these variances and the inherent subjectivity of the human reading experience. I have quantified these interpretive fluctuations as "Ghosts."
Kokoro yields the most striking dissonance in the BiblioEngine dataset: while the surface data shows intimacy and quiet conversation, the Ghost values reveal a vast, persistent psychological distance running beneath every exchange. The gap between what is spoken and what is felt—between rel_dist and rel_dist_ghost—is wider here than in any other work analyzed.
This is the quantitative signature of Sensei's secret: a man who speaks warmly while remaining forever unreachable.
By interacting with the on-screen slider, viewers can modulate these "Ghosts," directly intervening in the visualization and tracing the boundary between what the text says and what it conceals.