Systematic Comparative Analysis of Cooperation and Fusion Patterns within the Core Emotion Framework: Computational, Somatic, and Psychometric Dimensions

This paper develops a unified computational–somatic account of emotional dynamics within the Core Emotion Framework (CEF), integrating operator functionalism, somatic center architecture, and the taxonomic evolution of fusion patterns. The framework models emotional states as emergent computational processes generated by interactions among ten functional operators distributed across the Head, Heart, and Gut centers. A comparative analysis of the 100 operator entanglement patterns reveals a systematic progression from raw clinical observations to archetypal functional categories and finally to abstract, value neutral computational descriptors. This trajectory demonstrates that operator fusions are not inherently pathological; they become maladaptive only when chronic entanglement disrupts lawful transitions and reduces system flexibility. The paper formalizes chronic fusion using nonlinear state space dynamics, showing how excessive cross operator coupling produces positive feedback loops, limit cycle behavior, and the functional offline ing of the Deciding operator. These computational disruptions are linked to somatic and neuroendocrine consequences, including HPA axis dysregulation, Default Mode Network hyperconnectivity, and boundary collapse phenotypes. A detailed case analysis of the Expand–Accept fusion illustrates how affective conative imbalance generates a metabolic affective profile characterized by passive coping, impaired boundary regulation, and altered cortisol rhythms. The study further contrasts rigid and resilient conative boundary configurations, demonstrating how specific operator pairings shape stress responses, somatic bracing, and cognitive affective adaptability. Overall, the paper advances the CEF as a structurally coherent, mathematically grounded model capable of explaining emotional regulation, psychopathology, and metabolic affective disorders through a single operator based architecture. It provides a cross disciplinary framework that unifies computational modeling, somatic neuroscience, and clinical phenomenology under a shared functional ontology. Keywords Core Emotion Framework (CEF); Operator functionalism; Emotional computation; Somatic centers (Head–Heart–Gut); Operator fusion; Chronic entanglement; State space modeling; Limit cycle dynamics; Affective endocrine regulation; HPA axis dysregulation; Default Mode Network (DMN); Conative boundary configurations; Structural stability failure modes; Psychometric taxonomy; Metabolic affective phenotype.