I think your analysis is correct, and it's kind of just basic human psychology. Humans are extremely loss-averse and losing something you feel like you had the right to (HP bar) feels worse than something framed as a bonus (embered). There are tons of psychological experiments coming to similar conclusions using money for example, where the same end outcome ends up registering completely differently for people depending on how it's framed.
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