{
 "slug": "anxiety",
 "name": "Anxiety",
 "category": "expression",
 "group": "Fear",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Restless worry that will not settle.",
 "use_when": "Problem statements, waiting for a result, relatable everyday stress.",
 "phrase": "the brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Never ask for a smile or for an emotion by name; describe the muscles. Asked-for smiles come back generated and forced.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting (client feedback, Aug 2026)"
  },
  {
   "text": "Put the trigger first (the door slams, she reads the message), then the performance. Without a trigger the reaction has no timing.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Dan Kieft and Higgsfield's tested prompts via Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "emotion-direction",
   "url": "https://seedance-emotion-direction.vercel.app/",
   "what": "a clip of this emotion performed in Seedance 2.5 (link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [
  {
   "site": "emotion-direction",
   "name": "Anxiety",
   "text": "The eyebrows stay knitted, the eyes flick rapidly from side to side, the lower lip pulls between the teeth, and breathing remains shallow and quick. The hands grip together as the weight keeps shifting.",
   "credit": "Emotion Direction (seedance-emotion-direction.vercel.app)",
   "source_url": "https://seedance-emotion-media-3.vercel.app/videos/18-anxiety.mp4",
   "group": null,
   "intensity": "Medium",
   "cue": "Restlessness will not stop",
   "shot": null,
   "family": "Fear",
   "aliases": "anxious nervous worried restless tense",
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4",
    "card": "/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 7.07
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "terror",
  "suspicion"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Families, intensities and emotion names from Emotion Direction (names and structure only, read 13 Oct 2026); the directions are our own words in its grammar: body parts in the order they move, ending on what holds. Rules from Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "## Three intensities\n\n- **Subtle:** the thumb rubs the side of the finger, a lip bite, the eyes flick to the phone\n- **Medium:** the brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot\n- **Explosive:** pacing in a small circle, both hands in the hair, the breath audible, the eyes darting to the door and back",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/anxiety",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/anxiety.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot.\nReference clip (Anxiety): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot.\nReference clip (Anxiety): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: the brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.\nReference clip (Anxiety): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot.\nReference clip (Anxiety): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): The brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot. The eyebrows stay knitted, the eyes flick rapidly from side to side, the lower lip pulls between the teeth, and breathing remains shallow and quick. The hands grip together as the weight keeps shifting.\nReference clip (Anxiety): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: The brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot. The eyebrows stay knitted, the eyes flick rapidly from side to side, the lower lip pulls between the teeth, and breathing remains shallow and quick. The hands grip together as the weight keeps shifting.\nReference clip (Anxiety): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot. The scene is [your setting].\nReference clip (Anxiety): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The brows stay knotted, the eyes dart left and right, the lower lip is caught between the teeth, the breath is quick and shallow, the hands grip each other while the weight shifts foot to foot. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Anxiety): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/18-anxiety.mp4"
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}