These are emotional coloring that are added to whatever objects that are being coded. This is clearly a sub-cortical contribution and not an inherent function of cortical processing. The cortex remembers the results of this processing but does not generate it by itself.
I have outlined how I think this works numerous places elsewhere on the forum:
This one touches on the emotional weighting in particular.
Look at this one and note the reference to “Elliot” in the Rita Carter book: