{
 "slug": "rage",
 "name": "Rage",
 "category": "expression",
 "group": "Anger",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Anger breaking through control; powerful and dangerous.",
 "use_when": "Drama, sport, a villain, a stunt with an over-the-top reaction.",
 "phrase": "the brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds",
 "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": "Rage",
   "text": "The eyebrows slam down and inward, the upper lip peels back from the teeth, the nostrils flare, the neck tendons tighten, and the head pushes forward. The snarl holds as hard breaths move through the nose.",
   "credit": "Emotion Direction (seedance-emotion-direction.vercel.app)",
   "source_url": "https://seedance-emotion-media-1.vercel.app/videos/04-rage.mp4",
   "group": null,
   "intensity": "Explosive",
   "cue": "Control breaks open",
   "shot": null,
   "family": "Anger",
   "aliases": "furious explosive mad anger snarl",
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.mp4",
    "card": "/media/emotion-direction/04-rage-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/emotion-direction/04-rage-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 7.07
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "frustration",
  "determination"
 ],
 "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 jaw locks, the nostrils widen, the stare hardens without a blink\n- **Medium:** the brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds\n- **Explosive:** a shout with the whole body, the fists come up, the face red, spit on the breath, the chest heaving between bursts",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/rage",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/rage.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds.\nReference clip (Rage): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.mp4",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds.\nReference clip (Rage): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.mp4",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: the brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.\nReference clip (Rage): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.mp4",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds.\nReference clip (Rage): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.mp4",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): The brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds. The eyebrows slam down and inward, the upper lip peels back from the teeth, the nostrils flare, the neck tendons tighten, and the head pushes forward. The snarl holds as hard breaths move through the nose.\nReference clip (Rage): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: The brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds. The eyebrows slam down and inward, the upper lip peels back from the teeth, the nostrils flare, the neck tendons tighten, and the head pushes forward. The snarl holds as hard breaths move through the nose.\nReference clip (Rage): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds. The scene is [your setting].\nReference clip (Rage): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The brows drive down and in, the upper lip lifts off the teeth, the nostrils flare, the tendons in the neck stand out, the head pushes forward, hard breaths through the nose while the snarl holds. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Rage): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/04-rage.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."
 }
}