Okay shit one serious rebuke to the Dudes Who Have Feelings About Cat Person: surely you noticed that on multiple occasions she is afraid for her life. Dimly afraid, but afraid. And yet you expect emotional honesty from this woman. Really?
and she might not even be scared of you! Or have ever BEEN scared of you! but our brains learn general rules and when a general rule is lodged in your brain far enough back there, it will activate even in places where it has no business operating according to your conscious mind.