How best to explain no return offer when the reasoning was culture/fit?

I recently completed an internship and unfortunately didn’t receive a return offer due to culture/fit (my feedback on work/attitude was very positive).

I didn’t want to return FT in the team I interned in and wanted to move internally to a different team and feel perhaps one of my team picked up on this ( I was networking more with other teams) and so said I wasn’t a fit.

How best could I explain this when asked why I didn’t receive a return offer in interviews?

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