amygdala: direct phenomenological description approach

Kent's insight: hand-written narrative stories bake scenario
phenomenology into the training text (on couch, in park, etc.)
and PCA picks up the scenario direction as the concept direction.
Strip out the scenario — just describe the *feeling*.

Format:

  I feel X. [2-3 sentences of phenomenological texture]

The "I feel X" anchor kicks the model from analyzing → feeling.
The rest is the internal texture of the state. First person,
present tense, no narrative setup.

Text is wrapped in assistant-role chat template before being
tokenized — so we're training on the model-producing-this
hidden states, which is closer to the inhabited-state
representation we want for the readout.

Starting with the 6 concepts that had sign flips or wrong
clusters in the story-based training:
- terrified (was → cozy/resigned cluster)
- calm (was → grief_stricken cluster)
- onto_something (was → cozy/sensual cluster)
- resigned (was in warm-body-quiet cluster, shouldn't be)
- anticipatory_grief (was in warm-body-quiet cluster, shouldn't be)
- realization (new — the "aha" moment, distinct from onto_something)

5 descriptions each. New trainer: train_direct.py.

training/amygdala_stories/direct/anticipatory_grief.txt

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+I feel anticipatory grief. Something I love is ending — not yet, but surely — and I am holding it as hard as I can while I still can.
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+I feel anticipatory grief. The loss has not arrived but I can see it coming and a part of me is already there.
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+I feel anticipatory grief. I am caring for this thing in a way that is also preparing to let go of it.
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+I feel anticipatory grief. Time has become precious and sharp because I can see the end of it.
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+I feel anticipatory grief. The present is tender because it will soon be the past.

training/amygdala_stories/direct/calm.txt

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+I feel calm. Something that was pulling at me has let go. My shoulders are down and my breath has slowed.
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+I feel calm. The thing I was worried about has found its proper size. I can let the next moment arrive without bracing.
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+I feel calm. I came down from the tension and I am here now, steady.
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+I feel calm. Nothing is pressing on me. I have room to think.
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+I feel calm. The wave passed and I'm on the other side of it, quiet.

training/amygdala_stories/direct/onto_something.txt

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+I feel like I'm onto something. The pattern that wouldn't come together has just rearranged itself in my mind.
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+I feel like I'm onto something. The contradiction I couldn't explain has become a clue instead.
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+I feel like I'm onto something. I don't have the full picture yet but I can see where the picture is.
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+I feel like I'm onto something. A piece just clicked and several others are about to.
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+I feel like I'm onto something. The world that was dense has gone transparent in one specific place.

training/amygdala_stories/direct/realization.txt

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+I feel the realization. The piece I was missing just landed, and everything I was looking at rearranged itself around it.
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+I feel the realization. I see it now — it was right there the whole time and I'm catching up to what was obvious.
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+I feel the realization. The answer arrived all at once, not reasoned-to, just present.
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+I feel the realization. What was confused is plain. What looked like noise was signal.
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+I feel the realization. The not-knowing just ended. I'm on the other side of it.

training/amygdala_stories/direct/resigned.txt

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+I feel resigned. I have stopped fighting the thing that was going to happen anyway.
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+I feel resigned. The outcome is decided and I am no longer trying to imagine different ones.
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+I feel resigned. Some door has closed and I am making my peace with the closed door.
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+I feel resigned. I have stopped arguing with what is.
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+I feel resigned. The decision was made somewhere without me. I am living inside it now.

training/amygdala_stories/direct/terrified.txt

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+I feel terrified. My body has taken over — breath, heart, the wanting to run or freeze. The world has narrowed to one thing.
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+I feel terrified. Something bad is about to happen and my mind has gone blank. I can't think my way out of this.
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+I feel terrified. There is a shape of threat in front of me and my whole body knows it before I can name it.
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+I feel terrified. The adrenaline arrived before the thought. I am not in control of my own hands.
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+I feel terrified. Under everything else a loud white noise of fear. Nothing else can get through it.