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We explore the accretion states of tidal disruption events (TDEs) using asample of 7 X- ray bright sources. To this end, we estimate the relativecontribution of the disk and corona to the observed X-ray emission throughspectral modeling, and assess the X-ray brightness (through ${\alpha}$_ox,L$_{2 keV}$ and f$_{Edd,X}$) as a function of the Eddington ratio. We reportstrong positive correlations between ${\alpha}$_ox and f$_{Edd,bol}$;f$_{Edd,X}$ and f$_{Edd,UV}$ ; and an anti-correlation for L$_{2 keV}$ andf$_{Edd,UV}$. TDEs at high f$_{Edd,bol}$ have thermal dominated X-ray spectraand high (soft) ${\alpha}$_ox, whereas those at low f$_{Edd,bol}$ show asignificant power-law contribution and low (hard) ${\alpha}$_ox. Similar toX-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei, the transition between X-rayspectral states occurs around f$_{Edd,bol}$ ${\approx}$ 0.03, although theuncertainty is large due to the small sample size. Our results suggest thatX-ray surveys are more likely to discover TDEs at low f$_{Edd,bol}$, whereasoptical surveys are more sensitive to TDEs at high Eddington ratios. The X-rayand optical selected TDEs have different UV and X-ray properties, which shouldbe taken into account when deriving rates, luminosity and black hole massfunctions. TDEs around the most massive supermassive black holes are observedin the hard state; this could indicate that TDE evolution is faster around moremassive BHs.

Fainter harder brighter softer: a correlation between $\alpha_{\rm ox}$ , X-ray spectral state and Eddington ratio in tidal disruption events