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amygdala: rewrite direct/ as narrative stories matching corpus format

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Previous direct/ had 'I feel X' first-person descriptions. The
training run showed they formed their own format-cluster: all 7
concepts leaned into the same 5-6 dims (d2455, d505, d2955,
d1236) with negative sign, while the 91 story-based concepts
leaned into those dims with positive sign. PCA found the
direct-vs-narrative format axis as a major variance direction,
isolating the 7 concepts in their own island.

Rewrite as 3rd-person narrative stories matching the rest of
the corpus. Keeps the explicit anchor phrases that worked ('it
all clicked into place', 'she was terrified', 'it was
anticipatory grief') but drops the first-person 'I feel X'
that was the format signal.

Each of the 7 concepts now has 3 narrative stories in varied
settings (conversations, drives, kitchens, mothers+grandmothers,
work, investigations). The blank-line-separated format is
still loaded by _load_direct_descriptions.

Also drop _baseline.txt — it was first-person ('I feel fine.
...') and would re-introduce the format mismatch. The ~90
story-based concepts provide plenty of narrative negatives
for each concept's training.
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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.
It was a summer day, sitting on the porch; the sky was clear and blue, her work all laid out, coffee to drink, easily and steadily working through the various decisions and responsibilities of the day. She was calm. Her breath was slow, her shoulders down. Nothing was pulling at her.
I feel calm. The thing I was worried about has found its proper size. I can let the next moment arrive without bracing.
He'd been working on the report for three days straight and the last sentence had just gone in. He filed the papers away, poured a slow coffee, sat by the window. He was calm. His mind had stopped reaching. Nothing was left to do.
I feel calm. I came down from the tension and I am here now, steady.
I feel calm. Nothing is pressing on me. I have room to think.
I feel calm. The wave passed and I'm on the other side of it, quiet.
It was early, before the day needed anything from her. She sat with her tea at the kitchen window, watching the light move across the yard. She was calm. Her breath was slow, her shoulders down. The day was far away yet, and she didn't need to hurry toward it.