The Architecture of Affect: A Machine Analysis of Social Network Narratives via the Core Emotion Framework (CEF)

The structural-constructivist model of human psychology has seen a significant evolution with theemergence of the Core Emotion Framework (CEF), which identifies ten universal "emotional powers"necessary for psychological flourishing. This framework organizes the human system into threefunctional centers: the Head, the Heart, and the Gut. We have instructed the Deep Research tool fromGemini to analyze the CEF mapping to narratives from social networks like Reddit and Quora, to see if itcan identify distinct patterns of dominant and suppressed core emotions that explain thephenomenological experience of clinical diagnoses such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), ADHD,and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). For transparency's sake and for quality research we arepresenting here the machine analysis as is, without alteration or introducing our own opinion on thematter. Keywords: Core Emotion Framework (CEF), Head Center, Heart Center, Gut Center, Sensing, Calculating,Deciding, Expanding, Constricting, Achieving, Arranging, Appreciating, Boosting, Accepting, persistententanglement, Head Center Lock, Precision Crisis, Heart Splitting Knot, Mirror Technique, emotionalcircuit, structural-constructivist model, architecture of affect, nomological network analysis, qualitativecoding, affective instability, executive dysfunction, Default Mode Network (DMN), Central ExecutiveNetwork (CEN), emotional powers, psychological optimization.