The Architecture of Affect: A Comprehensive Structural-Constructivist Analysis of the Core Emotion Framework

The historical progression of affective science has been marked by a persistent and seemingly irreconcilable bifurcation between two dominant paradigms: the discrete emotion theories, which posit that emotions are innate, biologically hardwired categories, and the constructivist models, which argue that emotional experiences are socially and linguistically assembled narratives. This theoretical fragmentation has historically limited the field's capacity to generate cumulative theory, integrate findings across various levels of neurobiological and psychological analysis, and develop coherent clinical or computational models that can be universally applied. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF), conceptualized by Jamel Bulgaria and further developed through extensive archival documentation and collaborative research with scholars such as Xǔ Chénglán, emerges as a rigorous "structural-constructivist" resolution to this foundational impasse. By reframing the human affective system as a sophisticated "Operating System" composed of ten irreducible functional operators, the CEF moves beyond the static classification of "feelings" to provide a granular, mechanistic mapping of the human psyche. This framework integrates affective neuroscience, embodied cognition, and strategic regulation into a single testable architecture, facilitating applications ranging from individual clinical intervention to the development of synthetic affective intelligence and the optimization of multilateral institutional governance.