What this map represents
This is an interactive map of literary mechanisms of immersion, attention, emotional engagement and felt presence in a story-world. It connects technique definitions to examples, sources and corpus assessments. It is neither a table of authors nor a ready-made writing formula: use it to compare mechanisms and corpus coverage, identify weak evidence and formulate questions to test.
Scientific status: an original research classification, not an established law. “Periods”, “molecules” and “reactions” are organizational metaphors: they imply neither chemical periodicity nor proven effects of every technique on actual readers.
Reading the grid and investigating one mechanism
Columns are channels: КЛ1 — worldbuilding; КЛ2 — sensory simulation; КЛ3 — tempo and scenic presence; КЛ4 — information gaps; КЛ5 — access to consciousness; КЛ6 — voice and address; КЛ7 — attention and structure; КЛ8 — foregrounding and formal play. Header colors identify families: I — КЛ1–3, II — КЛ4/7, III — КЛ5/6, IV — КЛ8. Column width reflects the number of cards, not effect strength.
Rows are temporal scales: МК — phrase, ЭП — scene, МАК — chapter/book, ПЕР — variable. Position means channel and scale, not quality rank; order within a cell is not a scale. Of 256 cards, 240 occupy the grid; 3 meta-operators (modulating realization) and 13 configurations (combinations) are separate below. Their vectors are a project model, not measured additive effects.
Search by ID or name and filters dim nonmatching grid cards, without recalculating the lower sections. Click a card for its definition, goal, proposed effect, examples, sources and cross-references. Below are 9 preselected pairs (8 numeric φ associations and one qualitative “mirror”; click to highlight a pair), configuration formulas and profiles of 8 authors. This is not an arbitrary live correlation calculator; a profile aggregates assessments, not reader psychology.
Try this: search for П61 (Cyrillic first letter), open “Omission / Iceberg theory” and compare the definition with its examples. Its position is КЛ4 × ПЕР, vector П↑ В↓. Clear the search and locate the П61 + П62 association: the highlight lets you compare omission with information gaps. Inspect manual and machine strips separately: do observations agree, and on what evidence base? Association does not establish causation.
Layers, colors and missing data are different things
Manual layer: columns represent 104 authors, assessed from author studies, not every book they wrote. ОЧ/Ч/Р mean very frequent/frequent/rare under the project rubric; “—” means “not used” in the assessed material; “н/д” means no data. These are ordinal assessments, not word counts. “Manual” names the author layer: part of the world-corpus expansion was imported from arbitrated machine summaries (*М2); some portraits remain labeled “machine draft”. This does not guarantee a manual reading of every text. Core 93 / Sparse 11 partitions authors by coverage. The original methodology uses >60%; after corpus expansion, Core-author inclusion uses an absolute threshold of ≥100 assessed cells (core_split.py, decision 12.6). This is not an author ranking; there is no separate Core filter in this interface.
Machine book layer 🤖: 155 book columns, not 155 authors, containing draft aggregates of pipeline findings. Its “—” means no confirmed machine finding, not absence of the technique from the book. “н/д” and a missing manual row are not zero. Book-level context, translation and chunking constrain detection. Do not confuse this layer with catalog section T.
Four color modes: valence — Д (story-world motivation), С (both modes), Э (exposed medium/aesthetic distance): a motivation summary, not an effect measurement. Gray means no tag in the current 80-dual-card layer, not “ineffective”. “П vector” shows the sign of the П axis, not all axes; “weight · authors” is the proportion of manual carriers out of 104; “coverage · books” is the proportion of book columns with findings out of 155. ☢ means fewer than 5 manual carriers or a row outside the manual matrix, not danger or poor quality.
Vector П/Г/А/М/В (P/G/A/M/V): immersion / relation to character / authorial presence / world authentication / continuity of experience. ↑ strengthens, ↓ weakens or reverses, ↕ depends on realization; an omitted axis is neutral by model convention, not an experimentally proven zero. LDI: TR — translation-resistant, LS — language-specific, INT — intermediate. RU/EN/FR changes presentation, not the corpus; Cyrillic IDs and codes remain stable. Hover over card strips to see the author/book and assessment.
Sources, snapshot date and limitations
Data snapshot: 2026-10-26. The table summarizes the research technique catalog, classification, and assessments from the manual and machine corpora. Coverage is uneven; machine assessments remain separate from manual ones and do not establish causation.
Level 0 · meta-operators (no independent vector — they modulate realizations; ПЕР scale is inherited)
“Configurations” tier · 13 molecules (vector = sum of component vectors; click a formula element to highlight it in the grid)
Technique associations · current Core and historical φ (click to highlight a pair)
“Spectral bands” · author channel profile ((2·ОЧ + Ч)/(2·N known), recalculated on the manual 104-author layer)
☢ — low manual corpus base: fewer than 5 carriers out of 104, or the row is absent from the manual matrix; machine findings are shown separately and do not remove this caveat
Technique vector (arrow “orbitals” at the top-right of each card; model corpus-audited at stage 11; individual axes and rare cards retain caveats — vectors.md): ↑ strengthens an axis, ↓ weakens/reverses it, ↕ is dual and depends on the motivation of the particular instance (Д/С/Э). An omitted axis is neutral.
Г — relation to character (identification, mentalization): ↑ access to consciousness is strengthened · ↓ distance or broken connection
А — authorial presence: ↑ author/narrator is visible · ↓ author is effaced
М — authentication of the story-world: ↑ world is confirmed as real · ↓ world is deformed or estranged; immersion may still persist
В — continuity of experience (time, attention): ↑ continuity is maintained · ↓ rupture (ellipsis, montage, open ending)
Families (header colors): I perceptual-model (КЛ1–3) · II cognitive-informational (КЛ4, КЛ7) · III social-empathic (КЛ5–6) · IV deautomatizing (КЛ8). Families I–III — immersive route, IV — aesthetic route (Jacobs & Willems 2018).
Periods: МК phrase (29) · ЭП scene (52) · МАК chapter/book (111) · ПЕР variable (48), from temporal_scale.md including П249–П256. Cell КЛ3 × МК is occupied by П256 “Asyndeton / Paratactic acceleration” [hypothesis] (revision Д15, decision О76).
Manual matrix codes: ОЧ = very frequent · Ч = frequent · Р = rare · — = not used · н/д = no data. The codes are kept unchanged across language versions so the three tables remain directly comparable.