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Anxiety was introduced along with Envy, Embarrassment, and Ennui. Having the same goal as the other emotions, Anxiety only wanted what's best for Riley. Her main goal was to help Riley plan for the future. Anxiety would do anything to help Riley become better, but she saw that her original belief system and the original five emotions hindered Riley from becoming better. Anxiety threw Riley's sense of self into the recall tube into the back of Riley's mind and sent the original five emotions out into the Vault of Secrets with the help of Embarrassment.

Throughout the movie, Anxiety fed Riley's beliefs with her own memory orbs, slowly changing Riley's beliefs. One of her anxious beliefs included, "If I'm a Firehawk, then I won't be alone."

Anxiety continued to feed on Riley's beliefs by using her own imagination against her and creating scenarios that would make her overthink. Anxiety, thinking that she was helping Riley, thought that this was crucial so that Riley would be able to see potential mistakes and act upon it.

On the final day of the camp, Anxiety finally finished Riley's new sense of self where Riley tells herself that she's not good enough. Much to Anxiety's dismay, she told the other emotions that it would be fine as long as they completed the final test of the camp.

Anxiety continued to pressure Riley into scoring three goals. This went as far as ignoring her own teammates and injuring her friend Grace in the ice rink. Due to this, Riley was sent to the penalty box, where she started to break down from the pressure she and Anxiety have put on herself. Anxiety finally realizes her fatal mistake and desperately tries to fix it, forming a Storm of Emotion around her and prompting Riley to have an anxiety attack.

It wasn't until Joy's intervention that Anxiety realized the gravity of the situation, shedding a tear of regret. Anxiety learned to let go of Riley, learning that she couldn't choose who Riley was.

Anxiety is shown to be work-minded and is a perfectionist with her work; this is evident as she is shown to have knowledge of how the console works, even knowing more than Joy as she pulls out a laptop that the original emotions aren't familiar with.

Loyal to her own plans, she will go out of her way to create what she believes is a "better Riley" by feeding her bad thoughts so that she is prepared for the worst. She also went as far as capturing the original five emotions so that they didn't tamper with her plans. She's also anxious all the time (heince her name being Anxiety) because of that she overthinks a lot and is very protective of Riley.

Anxiety appears as an orange emotion with a stretched oval head and volcanic eruption like hair of a darker shade of the same color and jade green eyes, orange and off-white striped long-sleeved shirt, reddish-brown wide leg pants attached by a dark brown belt with a gold button-shaped buckle, and brown lace up medieval boots. Anxiety is the very first new emotion to be formed in Riley's mind since her toddler years. She is the only one of the new emotions, and first emotion since Joy, whose eye color doesn't match the color of her theme.