The structure of the even-even Te nuclides with 114A134 is shown to consist of features that can be associated with underlying low-energy collective excitations, as well as particle-hole intruder and two-quasiparticle configurations. Energy level positions and branching ratios from new and existing measurements can be reasonably well fitted with a proton-neutron interacting boson model calculation that includes particle-hole configuration mixing. After identifying levels that have large particle-hole intruder admixtures, little evidence for structures closely resembling those of the O(6) or SU(5) dynamical limits can be found.