I had to tell someone that I was interested in remaining celibate  
and alone. And that my spiritual master strictly prohibited  
sexual relations outside of marriage. This caused great fear  
through lack of conviction afraid to hurt someone's feelings  
despite my own being hurt in the process.
i had to tell someone that i was interested in remaining celibate  and alone and that my spiritual master strictly prohibited  sexual relations outside of marriage this caused great fear  through lack of conviction afraid to hurt someones feelings  despite my own being hurt in the process
[INST] In this task, you will be performing a classification exercise aimed at identifying the underlying emotion conveyed by a given sentence. The emotions to consider are as follows: Anger, Joy, Sadness, Guilt, Shame, Fear, or Disgust Sentence: I had to tell someone that I was interested in remaining celibate  
and alone. And that my spiritual master strictly prohibited  
sexual relations outside of marriage. This caused great fear  
through lack of conviction afraid to hurt someone's feelings  
despite my own being hurt in the process. [/INST] fear