Your emotions are part of your intelligence when they provide data without taking over the analysis.

Emotions carry information no analysis can supply: what you care about, what feels wrong before you can say why, when a room has changed. Treating them as noise leaves you thinking with half your equipment. Letting them run the analysis is equally costly, since a feeling has no method for weighing costs or testing evidence. The useful arrangement is emotions as witnesses and reason as the one who decides.

When something feels off, take the signal seriously enough to investigate and not seriously enough to conclude. Ask what specifically prompted it. If you find something, you have gained a real fact. If you find nothing, you have still learned where your attention is being drawn.