Emotional Distress

Dimension 1092 of 1,100 · Health Lens

Excitement Index

0.0241

Emotional Distress measures the presence and intensity of troubled emotional experience, including feeling upset, sad, discouraged, panicked, or overwhelmed, along with dysregulated reactions such as anger and threat. It encompasses both internal suffering and emotionally driven coping or behavior that appears when distress is active.

evidence final name · Can Ideal

Bands

Minimal Emotional Distress

Expressions activating this band show little sustained troubled emotion, often reflecting rare complaint, isolated upsetting events, or miscellaneous behavior without clear evidence of ongoing emotional suffering.

Mild Emotional Distress

Expressions activating this band show upset feelings that are noticeable but still situational or intermittent, such as hurt feelings, panic-related concern, seeking support, or efforts to avoid emotional triggers.

High Emotional Distress

Expressions activating this band show pronounced emotional suffering, including intense sadness, brooding, discouragement, preoccupation, and reliance on others or substances to manage difficult feelings.

Severe Emotional Distress

Expressions activating this band show pervasive and acute emotional disturbance, marked by feeling downhearted or unable to be cheered up, along with anger, destructive impulses, or threats of violence.

Evidence summary

Candidate names

Can Ideal1.00

Become0.50

War0.50

Sentence counts by range

B-12..B-6120,986

B-5..B-31,254,726

B-2..B43,605,015

B5..B71,116

Dataset representation

01__health_reviews__druglib__benefits_effectiveness48

03__fact_checking__liar__truth_ordinal60

05__whole_disney_dataset__rating85

06__text_reviews__acl_imdb__binary_sentiment77

07__emotion_labels__goemotions_reddit__multilabel96

08__dialogue_emotion__empathetic_dialogues__context58

10__social_media_sentiment__sentiment140__binary72

11__consumer_complaints__response_explanation_vs_relief152

Anchor definitions

Minimal Can Ideal

Minimal Can Ideal: Content characterized by all, get, complaint, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect can ideal at this level.

Moderate Can Ideal

Moderate Can Ideal: Content characterized by panic, company, fun, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect can ideal at this level.

Intense Can Ideal

Intense Can Ideal: Content characterized by obligations, can, great, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect can ideal at this level.

Peak Can Ideal

Peak Can Ideal: Content characterized by thats, civil, war, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect can ideal at this level.