The extent to which neural representations of subjective fear depend on or generalize across the situational context has remained unclear. We systematically manipulated variation within and across three distinct fear-evocative situations including fear of heights, spiders, and social threats. Searchlight multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) was used to identify whether and which brain regions carry information that predicts subjective fear, and the degree to which the fear-predictive neural codes in these areas depend upon or generalize across the situations. The overwhelming majority of brain regions carrying information about fear did so in a situation dependent manner. These findings suggest that neural representations of fear are unlikely to involve a singular pattern or neural signature, but rather a collection of multiple heterogeneous brain states.