Theoretical, Somatic, and Computational Synthesis of the Core Emotion Framework: Ontological Integration, Enactive Dynamics, and Psychometric Validation

This paper advances the Core Emotion Framework (CEF) by integrating it into a unified ontological, somatic, and computational architecture grounded in the Quantum Tathagatagarbha Manifestation Model (QTMM). Building on prior structural constructivist formulations, the present work introduces three major theoretical innovations. First, it establishes a formal ontological isomorphism between the CEF’s somatic centers and QTMM’s tri layer metaphysics—mapping Essence, Form, and Utility onto the universal wavefunction, conformal boundary seed matrix, and emergent bulk geometry. This provides the first physical-ontological grounding for emotional processes as phase collapsed manifestations of interoceptive information on a lower dimensional boundary. Second, the paper synthesizes CEF with enactive affectivity, demonstrating that emotional operators function as embodied, autopoietic, and sensorimotor regulatory processes rather than cognitive appraisals. This enactive integration is expanded through empirical analyses of participatory sense making, neural synchronization in Argentine Tango, and metastable groove dynamics, establishing a multi-agent dynamical model of intercorporeal affective coupling. Third, the paper introduces a mathematically explicit state space formalization of the ten functional operators, including non commuting operator algebra, multi-agent coupling matrices, and differential equations modeling pathological limit cycles. These computational advances enable a structural diagnosis of psychopathology—such as GoodPerson Anxiety Pattern, Avoidant Personality Disorder, and narcissistic subtypes—as failures of operator differentiation, fusion, or stability. The paper concludes by extending the CEF into metabolic and endocrine domains, modeling obesity and HPA axis dysregulation as somatic-entanglement phenotypes. Collectively, these contributions establish the CEF as a unified, ontologically grounded, enactive, and computationally tractable framework for affective science. Keywords Core Emotion Framework (CEF); Quantum Tathagatagarbha Manifestation Model (QTMM); enactive affectivity; somatic encoding; conformal boundary; operator algebra; participatory sense making; intercorporeal synchronization; metastability; structural psychopathology; narcissistic operator fusion; GoodPerson Anxiety Pattern; endocrine affective integration; HPA axis; dynamic stability; emotional state space modeling.