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amygdala: drop explicit 'she was X' anchor from direct stories

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Previous rewrite used 'she was terrified', 'it was anticipatory
grief', 'he was resigned' as explicit emotion anchors. Training
showed 6 of the 7 concepts still cluster together at cosines
0.52-0.71 — because the 'she was [emotion]' pattern is a shared
stylistic feature distinct from the rest of the corpus, which
conveys emotion implicitly through phenomenology.

Rewrite without the anchor. State conveyed through action and
body: 'her body locked down', 'his mind had stopped reaching',
'the loss hadn't come yet but she was already inside it'. Matches
the corpus style of existing stories like sunday_afternoon/content
which says 'nothing she wanted right now, nothing missing' not
'she was content'.

Accept some loss of PCA signal strength in exchange for the
concepts living in their semantically correct neighborhoods
rather than forming a stylistic island.
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She'd been working through the problem, sifting through all the disparate parts — then suddenly, it all made sense, it all clicked into place. The pieces arranged themselves in a single motion. She sat there, catching up to what she'd already seen.
She'd been working through the problem, sifting through all the disparate parts — then suddenly the pieces arranged themselves in a single motion. She sat there, catching up to what she'd already seen.
He'd been listening to her for twenty minutes, something not adding up in the way she was telling it — then suddenly, it all clicked into place. The gap wasn't an accident. She was telling him two different stories and hoping he wouldn't notice. He saw the whole shape of it.
He'd been listening to her for twenty minutes, something not adding up in the way she was telling it — then the gap showed itself. She was telling him two different stories at once, hoping he wouldn't notice. He saw the whole shape of it.
She'd been reading the old letter without understanding what her father meant — then suddenly, it all made sense. He hadn't been warning her. He'd been telling her he was leaving. Twenty years later, in her kitchen, it finally landed.
She'd been reading the old letter without understanding what her father meant — then the meaning unfolded. He hadn't been warning her; he'd been telling her he was leaving. Twenty years later, in her kitchen, the piece that had been missing was finally there.