Affective Distress
Dimension 456 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Affective Distress measures the degree to which an expression conveys emotionally charged negative self-experience, including sadness, anxiety, helplessness, self-consciousness, irritability, and feelings of worthlessness or being trapped. It encompasses both mixed emotionality and more clearly distress-laden states.
evidence final name · Kinda Anxious
Minimal Affective Distress
Expressions activating this band contain little or no discernible emotional self-state and are dominated by impersonal, transactional, or context-only content. The proxy is present only at a floor level, with affective distress largely absent from the expression.
Mild Affective Distress
Expressions activating this band convey everyday emotionality with mixed positive and negative interpersonal tone, such as confidence, friendliness, sadness, worry, or social engagement. Distress appears as situational feeling language rather than a strongly burdened inner state.
Moderate Affective Distress
Expressions activating this band show more salient negative self-evaluation or emotional strain, including feeling trapped, disappointed, concerned, or worthless, while still mixing in interest or positive self-descriptors. The expression centers more clearly on troubled inner experience.
High Affective Distress
Expressions activating this band convey pronounced emotional suffering marked by depression, fear, helplessness, self-consciousness, and irritability. The expression presents distress as a direct and prominent psychological state.
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Minimal Kinda Anxious: Content characterized by credit, phone, location, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect kinda anxious at this level.
Moderate Kinda Anxious: Content characterized by after, bush, conservative, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect kinda anxious at this level.
Intense Kinda Anxious: Content characterized by fun, beautifully, reiser, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect kinda anxious at this level.
Peak Kinda Anxious: Content characterized by kinda, anxious, pathetic, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect kinda anxious at this level.