Theoretical and Computational Architecture of the Core Emotion Framework: A Structural-Constructivist Synthesis

The Core Emotion Framework (CEF) introduces a structural constructivist architecture that reconceptualizes human affect as a generative computational system composed of ten irreducible functional operators. Rather than treating emotions as fixed biological modules or semantic projections, the CEF models affective episodes as “dynamic, lawful sequences of ten functional operators processing somatic and external inputs,” producing emergent configurations across Cephalic, Cardiac, and Enteric somatic evaluative centers. The framework formalizes emotional dynamics as trajectories in a ten dimensional continuous state space governed by differential equations, directionality constraints, and quantum probabilistic non separability, enabling rigorous modeling of operator fusions that classical probability cannot represent. Clinical protocols—including the Mirror Technique, operator specific somatic choreography, and the 7 Step Detangling Protocol—translate this architecture into reproducible interventions for emotional rigidity and chronic fusion. Empirical validation through scenario based psychometrics and the EL 1 Lexicon demonstrates strong structural coherence and semantic precision, while applications extend to psychotherapy, relational optimization, historical profiling, and synthetic affect in AI. The CEF thus provides a unified, computationally tractable, somatically grounded paradigm for understanding and modulating human emotion. Keywords: Core Emotion Framework; structural constructivism; somatic evaluative centers; computational affective science; emotional operators; state space modeling; quantum probability theory; operator fusion; somatic choreography; interoceptive computation; differential emotional dynamics; psychometric validation; EL 1 Lexicon; emotional agility; affective entanglement; Human Operating System; embodied cognition; clinical protocols; Mirror Technique; Detangling Protocol; synthetic affect; introspective agents; emotional solipsism.