{
 "slug": "disgust",
 "name": "Disgust",
 "category": "expression",
 "group": "Disgust",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Instant rejection of something revolting.",
 "use_when": "Before shots, the competitor's product in comedy, food gone wrong.",
 "phrase": "the nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays",
 "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": "Disgust",
   "text": "The nose wrinkles hard and pulls the upper lip upward, the eyes squint nearly shut, the chin draws in, and the head recoils and turns away. The revolted expression holds.",
   "credit": "Emotion Direction (seedance-emotion-direction.vercel.app)",
   "source_url": "https://seedance-emotion-media-1.vercel.app/videos/05-disgust.mp4",
   "group": null,
   "intensity": "Medium",
   "cue": "Full recoil",
   "shot": null,
   "family": "Disgust",
   "aliases": "revolted repelled gross distaste recoil",
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4",
    "card": "/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 7.07
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "eye-roll",
  "smug"
 ],
 "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 nose wrinkles slightly, the upper lip lifts on one side\n- **Medium:** the nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays\n- **Explosive:** the whole body recoils, a hand over the mouth, a dry heave, a step back with the head turned away",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/disgust",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/disgust.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays.\nReference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays.\nReference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: the nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.\nReference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays.\nReference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays. The nose wrinkles hard and pulls the upper lip upward, the eyes squint nearly shut, the chin draws in, and the head recoils and turns away. The revolted expression holds.\nReference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays. The nose wrinkles hard and pulls the upper lip upward, the eyes squint nearly shut, the chin draws in, and the head recoils and turns away. The revolted expression holds.\nReference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays. The scene is [your setting].\nReference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.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."
 }
}