I think that sometimes we respond to a situation in the present in a similar way that we might have in the past. Something happens or we anticipate something happening unconsciously and it triggers a memory and then a response. So what we are feeling we are feeling now...it's true emotion... but the meaning behind the emotion might really have to do with your past.

So with desk t being cold, it could be both. You are responding to general coldness with memories from your past, but you might also be responding to her coldness now...in the present.

Or something like that...