TEG-Blue Research Platform

Open science platform for understanding emotional regulation through the nervous system. Built on established research, proposing new connections between fields.

Theoretical Foundations

Established research that TEG-Blue builds on. These theories have been developed and validated by independent researchers across neuroscience, psychology, and related fields.

TheoryPublishedJohn Bowlby

Attachment Theory

Early relational experiences create internal working models that shape emotional regulation, relational patterns, and threat responses across the lifespan.

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TheoryPublishedStephen Porges

Polyvagal Theory

The autonomic nervous system operates through three hierarchical circuits — ventral vagal, sympathetic, and dorsal vagal — that shape our capacity for social engagement, mobilization, and immobilization.

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Regulatory State

A regulatory state is the nervous system's current operating mode, shaped by neuroception and expressed through physiology, cognition, and behavior. TEG-Blue identifies four primary regulatory states in the Four-Mode Gradient.

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TEG-Blue Research

Original contributions from the TEG-Blue project. This work proposes new connections between established theories and is in early stages of independent validation.

The originality is not in the individual theories — it is in the connections between them.

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TEG-Blue: The Emotional Gradient Blueprint — An Integrative Architecture for Emotional Intelligence

Presents the complete theoretical architecture of TEG-Blue, synthesizing polyvagal theory, attachment theory, dual-process cognition, trauma research, and systems thinking into a unified framework with four core components.

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PublicationPublished

Detecting Regulatory States in Natural Language

A validation study testing whether the Four-Mode Gradient framework can reliably detect emotional regulatory states in natural language, with implications for therapeutic and educational applications.

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Four-Mode Gradient

The Four-Mode Gradient is TEG-Blue's core mapping tool, identifying four distinct regulatory states the nervous system cycles through. It extends polyvagal theory by adding Restore as a fourth active state.

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