Detailed Explanation
This is the question that haunts me. The MDR workers stare at screens of numbers, identifying which ones "feel scary" and sorting them into categories like "woe," "frolic," "dread," and "malice." Even they don't know what the data represents. Some theories suggest the numbers are connected to the severed employees themselves—perhaps emotional data extracted from their suppressed memories. Others think it's connected to Lumon's consciousness experiments. The show deliberately keeps this mysterious, and I suspect the answer will recontextualize everything we've seen.