  We study a spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism for a topological quantum
field theory based on the twisted $\mathcal{N} = 2$ super-Yang-Mills theory.
Specifically, by employing Fujikawa's Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin mechanism,
local degrees of freedom are released. In fact, a trivial potential in the
equivariant cohomology is introduced. Such potential displays a nontrivial
vacuum solution which induces the breaking of the gauge symmetry without
explicitly breaking the original fermionic scalar supersymmetry of topological
Witten's action. The result is that not only massive vector bosons emerge, but
also fermionic massive fields states appear. Such a result shows that the
introduction of a topological phase in quantum field theory could provide a
mechanism of mass generation for fermions together with Higgs bosons.
