Connecting Cognition with Emotional Awareness
How does the nervous system shape what we feel, think, and do? TEG-Blue maps 12 frameworks into visual models that make emotional patterns visible, measurable, and testable — from individual regulation to systemic dynamics.
When the body can't restore itself, something else steps in.
A single thread runs through all twelve frameworks. F1–F7: each describes a regulation substitute — at a different scale, at a different cost. F8–F12 reverse the thread — not by adding another substitute, but by building the original.
Empirical evidence
The four-mode gradient has been tested against 10,000+ natural conflict narratives. Here are the key findings.
Empirical Validation — Four-Mode Gradient Framework
Computational analysis of unstructured text. Four regulatory modes reliably detected. De-escalators showed significantly higher rates of self-awareness, perspective-taking, and emotional differentiation. Mode classifications correlated with independent community moral judgments.
What TEG-Blue is
The first complete emotional technology system. An integrative framework connecting 139+ theories into testable hypotheses about emotional regulation.
3 MODELS
Compass, Calibration & Biology
The measurement instruments. M1 maps four nervous system states on a continuous gradient. M2 maps the three awareness capacities that calibrate the compass. M3 maps the physiological sequence that runs when the emotional cycle doesn't complete.
See the Models →12 FRAMEWORKS
Individual · Collective · Repair
The explanatory architecture. Three arcs explaining why modes exist, how individual patterns scale into social structures, and what makes change possible. Each framework integrates established research traditions.
See the Frameworks →The full system overview, including how the layers connect, is at System Overview. The 139+ source theories are documented at Scientific Foundations.