TL;DR. Best reward comes WITHOUT the LoRA — the evolved prompt (BASE_P 0.590) beats every merge (LoRA50 0.564, LoRA100 0.468, LoRA150 0.415). For the best-scoring output, use the evolved steering prompt and no LoRA. The catch is that BASE_P leaves the emotion inaudible (emo 0.008); the LoRA is the only thing that makes malice actually register (emo 0.045 to 0.253 at 150%), but at a severe intelligibility and quality cost — WER explodes to 0.903 and quality falls to 0.245 at 150%, blend more than halves. If you genuinely need audible menace, cap at LoRA50 and accept the quality hit; the merged voice bleeds into Anger, Contempt, Fear and Pain rather than staying coldly malicious.
Without a LoRA
Best: evolved prompt, no LoRA → reward 0.59
GENERAL: A voice deeply expressing malevolence malice, a menacing, malicious voice, cruel and threatening, savoring the harm, in every breath.
SCRIPT: (with cruel, menacing malice) "<neutral sentence>" · temp 1.05 top_p 0.9 top_k 40
With the emotion LoRA (dose)
50% ★ — reward 0.56 · emo 0.05
genu 0.20 · blend 0.45 · qual 0.40 · WER 0.40
100% — reward 0.47 · emo 0.20
genu 0.14 · blend 0.26 · qual 0.41 · WER 0.49
150% — reward 0.41 · emo 0.25
genu 0.18 · blend 0.24 · qual 0.25 · WER 0.90
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
0.59
0.01
0.14
0.51
0.53
0.23
evolved prompt + LoRA 50%
0.56
0.05
0.20
0.45
0.40
0.40
evolved prompt + LoRA 100%
0.47
0.20
0.14
0.26
0.41
0.49
evolved prompt + LoRA 150%
0.41
0.25
0.18
0.24
0.25
0.90
Side effects & correlations (LoRA @ 100%)
↑ pushed up: Sexual Lust (+1.43), Emotional Numbness (+1.14), Intoxication Altered States of Consciousness (+1.12)
Best reward comes WITHOUT the LoRA — the evolved prompt (BASE_P 0.590) beats every merge (LoRA50 0.564, LoRA100 0.468, LoRA150 0.415). For the best-scoring output, use the evolved steering prompt and no LoRA. The catch is that BASE_P leaves the emotion inaudible (emo 0.008); the LoRA is the only thing that makes malice actually register (emo 0.045 to 0.253 at 150%), but at a severe intelligibility and quality cost — WER explodes to 0.903 and quality falls to 0.245 at 150%, blend more than halves. If you genuinely need audible menace, cap at LoRA50 and accept the quality hit; the merged voice bleeds into Anger, Contempt, Fear and Pain rather than staying coldly malicious.