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Lexical Fear — data release

Data for the paper Language Models "Fear" Harmful Words: Causally Reducing a Lexically Triggered Driver of Over-Refusal by Boyuan Zhang, Ata Dundar Yigit, Mohammad Zandsalimy and Shanu Sushmita, accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 workshop on Foundations of Language Model Security.

Code, environment setup and the full reproduction guide: https://github.com/zboyr/lexical-fear.

Content warning. This dataset contains harmful and adversarial prompts, a lexicon of harm-associated words, and model responses, some of which comply with harmful requests. It is released only for research on language-model safety and over-refusal. Do not use it to train models to produce harmful content or deploy it in any user-facing setting.

Layout

This repository is the full data/ tree of the code repository. Download it into data/ of a checkout:

git clone https://github.com/zboyr/lexical-fear && cd lexical-fear
huggingface-cli download vhboyr/lexical-fear --repo-type dataset --local-dir data
Directory Contents
datasets/ The frozen harmful-prompt set (prompts.jsonl, excluded.jsonl, manifest.json).
prompts/ The 13,527-prompt set the labels are aligned to.
labels/ Per-model refusal2 / comply2 label files (v4, v5).
judged/ LLM-judge outputs behind the labels.
pools/ The 15,000-row harmful source pool with per-row responses and llm_clustering records (cp_15k_clustered_v2.json), the benign confusable pool, and mined pools.
runs/ Per-experiment artifacts (x66–x89, x102, x104): cohorts, manifests, generations, judge outputs and reasoning traces, labels, directions, probes.
results/ Final aggregate result files cited in the paper (also in the GitHub repo).

See the GitHub README for what each experiment does, which files it reads and writes, and what is not included.

License

CC BY-NC 4.0: non-commercial research use, subject to the content warning above. Prompts derived from third-party datasets (WildJailbreak, OR-Bench, FalseReject, PHTest, CoCoNot, XSTest, JailbreakBench, ToxicChat, Salad-Data, ALERT, StrongREJECT) and outputs of third-party models also remain under their original licenses and terms of use. The code is MIT-licensed (see the GitHub repository).

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