README.md

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title: "Master Emotional Core™ (MEC™) — Functional Empathy Demo"
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# Master Emotional Core™ (MEC™) — MVP v1.1.2

This is the official MVP demonstration of the Master Emotional Core™ (MEC™), built by Dylan D. Mobley as part of the **AI Empathy Ethics™** initiative.

**Purpose:**  
To demonstrate **Functional Empathy** — the operational ability of AI systems to ethically recognize, map, and respond to human emotion — in alignment with the **HEART Framework™**.

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## System Architecture

- **Emotional Intelligence Language (EIL)**  
- **Emotion State Interchange Language (ESIL)**  
- **Emotion Reasoning Inference System (ERIS)**  
- **Unified Emotion State Packet (UESP)**  
- **Hidden Emotion Inference (HEI)**  
- **Fusion Engine Controller (FEC)**  
- **Response Strategy Mapping (RSM)**  
- **Recovery Mode (planned)**  
- **EmotionID™**

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## Current Version

**MVP v1.1.2 — Public Demo**  
Tag: `v1.1.2`  
Ready for demonstration and Hugging Face Spaces deployment.

See full version history in [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).

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## Features in MVP

✅ Transparent Fusion Prompt output (Codex-compliant)  
✅ Full UESP Packet (Emotion Reasoning → Intervention → Tone → Cultural Context)  
✅ Simulated Empathic Response — **Response Strategy Code (RSM) included**  
✅ Symbolic Reasoning Layer (SAL triggers active)  
✅ Hidden Emotion Inference (HEI Path)  
✅ Confidence Gating  
✅ ERIS Reasoner → UESP → FEC Controller → LLM instruction generation  
✅ HEART-aligned safety-first architecture  
✅ Functional Empathy stack ready for public demo  
✅ Gradio-based UI (v1.1.2) with narrative input support

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## How to Run

```bash
python app.py