Individual nervous systems.
Collective patterns. One architecture.
TEG-Blue makes it legible.
An integrative architecture mapping emotional information, nervous system states, and biological restoration.
It draws together 145+ theoretical contributions from 41 research traditions into one testable system — open science, open to critique and validation.
What is TEG-Blue?
An integrative architecture that maps how nervous system states shape emotional behavior — and what it takes to move between them. Organized as three connected parts:
1 — Measurement
Four Foundational Models
Emotions as Signals (M1) maps what the nervous system delivers. Nervous System States (M2) maps where the nervous system is pointing. Regulation Capacities (M3) describes the body's designed return path. Awareness Capacities (M4) explain how accurately it reads — and what goes offline when it gets stuck.
Core Models →2 — Explanatory
12 Frameworks
Why these patterns exist, how they escalate from one person into social systems, and what makes repair possible. One mechanism runs through all twelve: when the body's natural return path is missing, something else steps in.
12 Frameworks →3 — Applied
Emotional Tools
Gradient-based scales that map behavioral dimensions from regulated to dysregulated, with observable markers at every point. Empathy, accountability, integrity, boundary dynamics, and more.
Explore Tools →The full architecture, including how the parts connect, is at System Overview. The 145+ theoretical contributions across 41 research traditions are documented at Established Research.
When the body can't restore itself, something else steps in.
A single thread runs through all twelve frameworks. Describing a regulation substitute — at a different scale, at a different cost, and a way to reverse the thread — not by adding another substitute, but by building the original.
How this work is sustained
The application site (teg-blue.com) offers paid tools to fund ongoing research and development. These tiers do not create dependency loops or exploit emotional vulnerability for engagement. The research — the frameworks, the models, the data — stays open.