The Unified Structural-Constructivist Architecture of Affect: A Comprehensive Technical and Empirical Report on the Core Emotion Framework

This report presents a unified structural constructivist architecture of human affect through the Core Emotion Framework (CEF), a model that resolves the long standing divide between discrete and dimensional theories of emotion. The CEF conceptualizes emotions as ten functional operators—“active functional operators… internal mechanisms that modulate cognitive, somatic, and conative systems” (document)—distributed across the Head, Heart, and Gut centers. These operators form a computational emotional engine with defined somatic signatures, directional flow rules, and predictable transition sequences. The report details the Decalogue of Operators, their overactivation and suppression risks, and the structural mechanisms underlying emotional fusions such as GPAP, Expand Accept metabolic fusion, bipolar oscillation, and ruminative stagnation. A quantum probabilistic formulation models these fused states as non separable entanglements requiring somatic decoherence interventions. The paper further outlines the preregistered psychometric validation program, including the 100 item scenario based CEF Scale and its CFA/ESEM modeling paradox. Extensions into relational dynamics, parenting, CBT comparison, and computational affect demonstrate the framework’s cross domain generality. Finally, an external 4,132 participant Bayesian network study independently supports the CEF’s prediction that Calculating-Constricting fusion drives systemic behavioral cascades, linking perceived stress to sleep disruption, mental well being, and physical activity patterns. Together, these findings position the CEF as a comprehensive, computationally tractable model for affective science, clinical intervention, and synthetic emotional systems.