often little more than a facade masking pure, unprincipled feeling?

Does "often little more than a facade masking pure, unprincipled feeling" mean "often merely a misrepresentation that hides pure, unbridled feeling"?

Facade here refers to "a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant"?

Context:


The neurologist Robert Burton argues that the "feeling of knowing" (i.e., the
conviction that one's judgmentis correct) is a primary positive emotion that often floats free of rational processes and can occasionally become wholly detached from logical or He infers this from neurological disorders in which subjects display sensory evidence. pathological certainty (e.g., schizophrenia and Cotard's delusion) and pathological uncertainty (e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder). Burton concludes that it is irrational to expect too much of human rationality. On his account, rationality is mostly aspirational in character and often little more than a facade masking pure, unprincipled feeling. Other neuroscientists have made similar claims. Chris Frith, a pioneer in the use of functional neuroimaging, recently wrote:
[W]here does conscious reasoning come into the picture? It is an attempt to justify the choice after it has been made. And it is, after all, the only way we have to try to explain to other people why we made a particular decision. But given our lack of access to the brain processes involved, our justification is often spurious: a post-hoc rationalization, or even a confabulation --- a "story" born of the confusion betwee imagination and memory.