Unwanted Bevel Effect?

When adding a grain pattern effect to an object in Illustrator CS6 I get an odd bevel that surrounds the object. There is nothing in the Appearance window to suggest that there should be a bevel and I didn't add it myself.
Is there some setting I am missing or an easy way to remove the effect? For now I am masking the object with a slightly smaller object but it's starting to drastically increase the size of my file.

Nope, I'm still getting the bevel effect in there somehow.
It just seems odd that Illiustrator would add that in for apparently no reason.
And here's a shot of the Effect window:
Also, it only seems to happen to the Horizontal and Vertical Grain effects.

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