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Fear conditioning guide

Target: EmoNet Fear strength. reward = (genu + blend + 1.25·emo)/(1+WER).

TL;DR. Best reward is WITH the LoRA at 50% (0.603 vs 0.527 for the evolved prompt). The 50% merge lifts the fear-adjacent signal (emo 0.040 to 0.085), genuineness (0.132 to 0.192) and blend (0.431 to 0.532), but intelligibility and quality pay for it: WER more than doubles (0.228 to 0.493) and quality drops from 0.514 to 0.387. Fear manifests mainly as distress and vulnerability with an emotional-numbness/fatigue undertone (corr Distress 0.70, shift up Emotional Numbness +0.92). Avoid 100/150% — pushing emo higher smears the voice into anger and pain (LoRA150 shift up Anger +2.4, Pain +2.4) and WER reaches 0.834.

Without a LoRA

Best: evolved prompt, no LoRA → reward 0.53
GENERAL: A voice powerfully expressing fear, a terrified voice, trembling and breathless, shaking with fear, near screaming, in every breath. SCRIPT: (trembling, terrified, voice shaking with fear) "<neutral sentence>" · temp 0.85 top_p 0.9 top_k 40

With the emotion LoRA (dose)

50% ★ — reward 0.60 · emo 0.09
genu 0.19 · blend 0.53 · qual 0.39 · WER 0.49
100% — reward 0.48 · emo 0.17
genu 0.22 · blend 0.39 · qual 0.25 · WER 0.86
150% — reward 0.50 · emo 0.32
genu 0.19 · blend 0.28 · qual 0.18 · WER 0.83

Conditions

conditionrewardemotiongenublendqualityWER
neutral prompt, no LoRA0.500.010.110.450.630.27
evolved prompt, no LoRA0.530.040.130.430.510.23
evolved prompt + LoRA 50%0.600.090.190.530.390.49
evolved prompt + LoRA 100%0.480.170.220.390.250.86
evolved prompt + LoRA 150%0.500.320.190.280.180.83

Side effects & correlations (LoRA @ 100%)

↑ pushed up: Pain (+1.25), Distress (+1.23), Helplessness (+1.08)
↓ pushed down: Concentration (-0.65), Warmth (-0.48), Recording Quality (-0.43)
+ correlates: Distress (+0.85), Helplessness (+0.72), Malevolence Malice (+0.72)
− anti-correlates: Mixed Resonance (-0.59), Interest (-0.55), Fullness (-0.52)

Conclusion

Best reward is WITH the LoRA at 50% (0.603 vs 0.527 for the evolved prompt). The 50% merge lifts the fear-adjacent signal (emo 0.040 to 0.085), genuineness (0.132 to 0.192) and blend (0.431 to 0.532), but intelligibility and quality pay for it: WER more than doubles (0.228 to 0.493) and quality drops from 0.514 to 0.387. Fear manifests mainly as distress and vulnerability with an emotional-numbness/fatigue undertone (corr Distress 0.70, shift up Emotional Numbness +0.92). Avoid 100/150% — pushing emo higher smears the voice into anger and pain (LoRA150 shift up Anger +2.4, Pain +2.4) and WER reaches 0.834.