diff --git a/test/e2e/test/retry.test.ts b/test/e2e/test/retry.test.ts
index 3025d7cce..19c50af11 100644
--- a/test/e2e/test/retry.test.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/test/retry.test.ts
@@ -393,12 +393,19 @@ describe('failure summary header', () => {
     `)
   })
 
-  test('labels each soft error with the attempts that produced it', async () => {
+  test('prints headers for soft errors repeated within an attempt', async () => {
     const { stderr } = await runInlineTests({
       'basic.test.js': `
         import { expect, test } from 'vitest'
 
-        test('soft', { retry: 1 }, () => {
+        test('soft-no-retry', () => {
+          for (let i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+            expect.soft(1).toBe(2)
+          }
+          expect.soft(2).toBe(3)
+        })
+
+        test('soft-retry', { retry: 1 }, () => {
           for (let i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
             expect.soft(1).toBe(2)
           }
@@ -407,11 +414,14 @@ describe('failure summary header', () => {
       `,
     })
 
-    // the loop repeats the first error within each attempt; it still gets one header
     expect(extractFailureHeaders(stderr)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
-      " FAIL  basic.test.js > soft (retry 0, retry 1)
+      " FAIL  basic.test.js > soft-no-retry
+      AssertionError: expected 1 to be 2 // Object.is equality
+       FAIL  basic.test.js > soft-no-retry
+      AssertionError: expected 2 to be 3 // Object.is equality
+       FAIL  basic.test.js > soft-retry (retry 0, retry 1)
       AssertionError: expected 1 to be 2 // Object.is equality
-       FAIL  basic.test.js > soft (retry 0, retry 1)
+       FAIL  basic.test.js > soft-retry (retry 0, retry 1)
       AssertionError: expected 2 to be 3 // Object.is equality"
     `)
   })