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amygdala stories: relabel + strengthen weak-signal concepts

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Reread each story asking "what does this convey to me?" Found two
clear mislabels and several concepts with too few positives for
stable PCA:

  tender: only 1 story, and it was anticipatory grief (care for
    a dying dog), not tender. Moved to anticipatory_grief.txt as
    its own concept. Rewrote tender.txt + added 2 paired tender
    stories (the_doorway, the_undressing) — directed softness,
    gentle-by-nature, not gentle-because-fragile.

  bitter: letter_in_drawer/bitter was disillusioned / processed
    hurt ("did not slam the drawer"), not bitter. Rewrote it with
    actual sour grudge. Added the_long_meeting/bitter (watching
    colleague take credit for your reassigned work).

  peaceful: 1 story → 4 (added stories/peaceful.txt + paired
    park_after_rain, sunday_afternoon).

  onto_something: all 3 stories were code epiphanies, narrowing
    the concept. Added stories/onto_something.txt with a non-code
    pattern-click (sales-demo causing churn).

  terrified: 2 stories, both "waiting for bad news." Added
    kitchen_at_3am/terrified — acute threat-in-the-house terror.
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The lake at six in the morning was perfectly still. He sat on the dock with his coffee and his bare feet just above the water. A single loon called from somewhere across, and was answered. Mist lifted off the surface in slow columns. He was not waiting for anything. He was not hurrying through anything. The lake, the light, the warmth of the coffee against his palms — it was all one thing, and he was in it.