EmpathyEthicist/mec-functional-empathy-demo

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™.

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™

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.

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

How to Run

python app.py