Animate guardian life on gem/tooltip?

Spreadsheet of life by GGG:
https://docs.google.com/a/grindinggear.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ahqk9lptRHcMdHdjM1hTNTV1NzhBeEtQYlVvM1NvSFE#gid=5


Level 12:
1056 life

In game tooltip:
1056 life


In game tooltip:
1373 life(30% increase)

So what happened to the 44% life listed on the gem?
Is it a local increase(base*1.44=1056)? or is it just not calculated into the tooltip? Does it only affect life on animated gear?

The tooltip life shown seems be to affected by minion life modifiers on gear, but animating pieces of gear with life does not seem to affect this number. So this leads to another question: Do increased minion life modifiers affect the life from the gear? and also, why show life on the tooltip, if it's not going to be accurate at all.

To recap:
Is Animate Guardian's actual life
[1]base * 1.44 = 1056
[2]1056 * 1.44 = 1520.64
[~]1056 * 1.74 = 1837.44 (+minion gem but displays 1373)
[3]1056 +(gearlife * 1.44)

If [1], the life % listed on the gem is useless information
If [2], why is the tooltip calculation inconsistent with other increased modifiers since minion life and chober chaber affects the number. Or is it actually consistent and is a limitation due to the fact that the gem itself does not increase "minion life" but rather "life" since its referring to itself which is a minion(and in this case would it be a more modifier that the tooltip display not take into account?)
If [3], do minion life passives affect gear life? Regardless, animating gear does not affect the tooltip so in every case, the tooltip display is still going to be wrong.

I initially assumed(still hoping) that AG had a base life and all the life from gear was added to the base then multiplied by against minion life on gem/gear/passives. If this is actually true, then it's only a matter of display error(with a large margin).

This was tested on a character with no minion passives.

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I initially assumed(still hoping) that AG had a base life and all the life from gear was added to the base then multiplied by against minion life on gem/gear/passives. If this is actually true, then it's only a matter of display error(with a large margin).

It does work like that, and I wouldn't pay much attention to the life on skill tooltip if I were you, it's about as informative as a burqa when picking a bride, the only info it provides is your guardian actually has some health and it's higher than what you see on tooltip.

Your guardian with minion life gem has:
(1056 life + 200 life on gear) * (44% + 30% increased life) = 2185 life