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.
2 MODELS
Inner Compass & Awareness Capacities
The measurement instruments. M1 maps four nervous system states on a continuous gradient — Connection, Protection, Control, Domination. M2 maps the three awareness capacities that determine what data the compass receives and how it's processed.
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.
The 12 frameworks
Three arcs explaining how emotional patterns form, scale into social structures, and how change becomes possible. Each framework connects to established research traditions — find your entry point below.
ARC 1 · INDIVIDUAL
How the nervous system evaluates safety, calibrates through development, and what happens when cognition compensates
ARC 2 · COLLECTIVE
How individual protective patterns scale into shared rules, hierarchies, perception biases, and systemic domination
ARC 3 · REPAIR AND COMPLEXITY
How awareness rebuilds, how variation works, and the architecture underneath
Work with the material
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