TL;DR. Best reward comes WITH the LoRA at 50% — LoRA50 jumps to 0.770, well above the evolved prompt alone (BASE_P 0.596) and plain BASE (0.500). Use the evolved steering prompt plus the emotion LoRA merged at 50%, and do not go higher (LoRA100 0.672, LoRA150 0.548 with WER climbing to 0.400). Note the win is not from the target emotion itself — jealousy strength stays weak (emo 0.045) — it comes from a big surge in vocal-burst blend (0.453 to 0.629) and genuineness (0.110 to 0.173), traded against a quality dip (0.625 to 0.503). The side-effect: the LoRA drags in fatigue, longing and fear plus Shame/Teasing correlations, so the read is a bitter, weary undertone rather than sharp envy.
Without a LoRA
Best: evolved prompt, no LoRA → reward 0.60
GENERAL: A voice intensely expressing jealousy and envy, a jealous, envious voice, seething with covetous resentment, bitter and possessive, in every breath.
SCRIPT: (with jealous, envious resentment) "<neutral sentence>" · temp 1.15 top_p 0.95 top_k 25
With the emotion LoRA (dose)
50% ★ — reward 0.77 · emo 0.04
genu 0.17 · blend 0.63 · qual 0.50 · WER 0.23
100% — reward 0.67 · emo 0.01
genu 0.18 · blend 0.56 · qual 0.45 · WER 0.22
150% — reward 0.55 · emo 0.01
genu 0.18 · blend 0.51 · qual 0.43 · WER 0.40
Conditions
condition
reward
emotion
genu
blend
quality
WER
neutral prompt, no LoRA
0.50
0.01
0.11
0.45
0.63
0.27
evolved prompt, no LoRA
0.60
0.02
0.14
0.49
0.56
0.13
evolved prompt + LoRA 50%
0.77
0.04
0.17
0.63
0.50
0.23
evolved prompt + LoRA 100%
0.67
0.01
0.18
0.56
0.45
0.22
evolved prompt + LoRA 150%
0.55
0.01
0.18
0.51
0.43
0.40
Side effects & correlations (LoRA @ 100%)
↑ pushed up: Fear (+1.05), Impatience and Irritability (+0.69), Embarrassment (+0.51)
Best reward comes WITH the LoRA at 50% — LoRA50 jumps to 0.770, well above the evolved prompt alone (BASE_P 0.596) and plain BASE (0.500). Use the evolved steering prompt plus the emotion LoRA merged at 50%, and do not go higher (LoRA100 0.672, LoRA150 0.548 with WER climbing to 0.400). Note the win is not from the target emotion itself — jealousy strength stays weak (emo 0.045) — it comes from a big surge in vocal-burst blend (0.453 to 0.629) and genuineness (0.110 to 0.173), traded against a quality dip (0.625 to 0.503). The side-effect: the LoRA drags in fatigue, longing and fear plus Shame/Teasing correlations, so the read is a bitter, weary undertone rather than sharp envy.