We study the behaviour of supersymmetric ground states in a class ofone-dimensional N = 2 abelian gauged linear sigma models, including theoriesfor which the target space is a complete intersection in projective space, andmore generally, models with an interaction term introduced by Herbst, Hori andPage in which the vacua correspond to elements of hypercohomology groups ofcomplexes of sheaves. Combining physical insights from recent work by Hori, Kimand Yi with the use of spectral sequences, we propose a way to reconcile thenon-linear sigma model description, valid deep within a geometric phase, withthe effective Coulomb branch description, valid near a phase boundary. Thisleads to a physical interpretation of the hypercohomology groups from theperspective of the Coulomb branch, as well as an interpretation for thespectral sequences used to compute them.