I've been looking into this as well.
When you jump right with -f the f-value of those records again move from positive to negative. And when you jump left from e the same thing occurs with the t in a[t]=an.
They don't match, as in it's not the same amount of jumps required for both of them to end up on 0. But VQC has referred to the excluding middle and meeting in the middle. Maybe it's somehow related to that (I feel like this is just a wild stab).