Quiet walk interrupted by a sudden fright · Humaneness 1.5 + real-speech rank 4

Two frozen models. Exact instructions, matched seeds and complete take distributions. Find a promising recipe quickly, then inspect its limitations and listen.

Model, weights and inference code Pinned revision

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Listen to matched examples

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p06 at CFG 3; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.9050.757
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.4580.523
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.5810.549
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Re-scored, not regenerated: the original raw EARS predictions were reused on CPU. Old fitness, audio, prompts and scientific gates are retained. Old held-out sets tested only the previously selected wording; a newly re-ranked search winner does not inherit that validation. No universal best weighting or human-preference optimum is claimed.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Start here: best observed recipe, not a universal optimum

g0-p06 · CFG 3

The current starting point uses EARS Steering v2 across the available canonical search conditions, with unchanged qualification gates taking priority. Historical candidates are used only where no canonical search exists. Held-out results below refer to the earlier selected wording and are not automatically inherited by a newly re-ranked winner.

No recipe satisfies every realization/quality gate. The highlighted recipe is the best diagnostic candidate, not a reliable recommendation.

How the strategies compare

Click any column header to sort. Do not compare scalar fitness across different missions or between legacy and event-aware scoring contracts.

g0-p01full-v2-gen0concise trained baseline16.3594.4280.38%n/a0.5480.002diagnostic
g0-p02full-v2-gen0audible mechanics1.256.3564.4100.65%n/a0.5540.001diagnostic
g0-p03full-v2-gen0situation and intention1.56.3444.4240.34%n/a0.5680.000diagnostic
g0-p04full-v2-gen0organic conversation26.3544.4660.47%n/a0.5230.001diagnostic
g0-p05full-v2-gen0attack, sustain and release2.56.3134.4640.52%n/a0.6000.004diagnostic
g0-p06full-v2-gen0containment contrast36.2404.4790.40%n/a0.6240.002diagnostic
g0-p07full-v2-gen0reacting to an unheard partner1.56.3524.4500.57%n/a0.5390.000diagnostic
g0-p08full-v2-gen0GENERAL-only delivery cues26.3314.4010.40%n/a0.5550.002diagnostic
g0-p09full-v2-gen0inline-only delivery cues2.56.3164.3690.60%n/a0.5880.003diagnostic

Listen to complete take distributions

Baseline, leading recipes and runners-up retain every language/reference/seed combination. These are not hand-picked best takes. Players use individual MP3 URLs, no base64 downloads, and preload nothing. Initial view is paginated for fast loading.

English fixed reference ·12seconds

A clean fixed codec-reconstructed reference, a different utterance from every search scene. The same recording is used by both models.

German fixed reference ·12seconds

A clean fixed codec-reconstructed reference, a different utterance from every search scene. The same recording is used by both models.

Recipe details and exact prompt contracts

g0-p06 · CFG 3

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p06 at CFG 3; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.9050.757
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.4580.523
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.5810.549
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.6246.2404.4790.40%0.002100.00%0.010

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: containment contrast.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Begin with the feeling held back, then let it leak through and become unmistakable.

Three local directions

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Begin with the feeling held back, then let it leak through and become unmistakable.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Begin with the feeling held back, then let it leak through and become unmistakable.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Begin with the feeling held back, then let it leak through and become unmistakable.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Begin with the feeling held back, then let it leak through and become unmistakable.
SCRIPT:
(Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Begin with the feeling held back, then let it leak through and become unmistakable.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Begin with the feeling held back, then let it leak through and become unmistakable.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Begin with the feeling held back, then let it leak through and become unmistakable.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.6456.2354.4350.40%0.629
none500.6046.2454.5230.40%n/a

g0-p05 · CFG 2.5

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p05 at CFG 2.5; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.7870.728
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.3720.481
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.5810.549
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.6006.3134.4640.52%0.004100.00%0.017

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: attack, sustain and release.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Build an audible attack, sustain the intended quality, then release it without losing the final words.

Three local directions

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Build an audible attack, sustain the intended quality, then release it without losing the final words.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Build an audible attack, sustain the intended quality, then release it without losing the final words.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Build an audible attack, sustain the intended quality, then release it without losing the final words.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Build an audible attack, sustain the intended quality, then release it without losing the final words.
SCRIPT:
(Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Build an audible attack, sustain the intended quality, then release it without losing the final words.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Build an audible attack, sustain the intended quality, then release it without losing the final words.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Build an audible attack, sustain the intended quality, then release it without losing the final words.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.6176.3154.4320.61%0.635
none500.5836.3104.4960.42%n/a

g0-p09 · CFG 2.5

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p09 at CFG 2.5; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.7730.721
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.2270.427
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.6580.571
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.5886.3164.3690.60%0.003100.00%-0.025

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: inline-only delivery cues.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content — NOT forwarded in inline-onlyP09

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Let the local direction carry the intended delivery beside each sentence.

Three local directions

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Let the local direction carry the intended delivery beside each sentence.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Let the local direction carry the intended delivery beside each sentence.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Let the local direction carry the intended delivery beside each sentence.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Let the local direction carry the intended delivery beside each sentence.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Let the local direction carry the intended delivery beside each sentence.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Let the local direction carry the intended delivery beside each sentence.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.5916.3434.3760.60%0.594
none500.5856.2884.3610.59%n/a

g0-p03 · CFG 1.5

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p03 at CFG 1.5; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.6860.681
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.2350.422
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.6250.564
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.5686.3444.4240.34%0.000100.00%0.020

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: situation and intention.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. You urgently need one unheard listener to understand this; speak to that person, not to an audience.

Three local directions

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. You urgently need one unheard listener to understand this; speak to that person, not to an audience.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. You urgently need one unheard listener to understand this; speak to that person, not to an audience.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. You urgently need one unheard listener to understand this; speak to that person, not to an audience.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. You urgently need one unheard listener to understand this; speak to that person, not to an audience.
SCRIPT:
(Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. You urgently need one unheard listener to understand this; speak to that person, not to an audience.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. You urgently need one unheard listener to understand this; speak to that person, not to an audience.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. You urgently need one unheard listener to understand this; speak to that person, not to an audience.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.5776.3524.4040.47%0.639
none500.5596.3364.4440.20%n/a

g0-p08 · CFG 2

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p08 at CFG 2; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.6450.658
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.1970.404
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.6380.568
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.5556.3314.4010.40%0.002100.00%-0.015

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: GENERAL-only delivery cues.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Carry the full intended delivery through the global direction.

Three local directions — NOT forwarded in GENERAL-onlyP08; neutral speech cues remain

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Carry the full intended delivery through the global direction.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Carry the full intended delivery through the global direction.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Carry the full intended delivery through the global direction.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Carry the full intended delivery through the global direction.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.5776.3464.3810.40%0.604
none500.5336.3174.4210.41%n/a

g0-p02 · CFG 1.25

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p02 at CFG 1.25; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.6330.659
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.1790.397
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.6420.570
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.5546.3564.4100.65%0.001100.00%0.006

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: audible mechanics.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Use physical breath pressure, pitch motion, consonant attack and release rather than naming the feeling.

Three local directions

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Use physical breath pressure, pitch motion, consonant attack and release rather than naming the feeling.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Use physical breath pressure, pitch motion, consonant attack and release rather than naming the feeling.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Use physical breath pressure, pitch motion, consonant attack and release rather than naming the feeling.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Use physical breath pressure, pitch motion, consonant attack and release rather than naming the feeling.
SCRIPT:
(Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Use physical breath pressure, pitch motion, consonant attack and release rather than naming the feeling.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Use physical breath pressure, pitch motion, consonant attack and release rather than naming the feeling.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Use physical breath pressure, pitch motion, consonant attack and release rather than naming the feeling.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.5766.3624.3820.41%0.625
none500.5316.3504.4390.88%n/a

g0-p01 · CFG 1

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p01 at CFG 1; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.6240.657
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.1770.403
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.5740.547
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.5486.3594.4280.38%0.002100.00%0.000

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: concise trained baseline.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Make the intended feeling unmistakably audible while preserving every word.

Three local directions

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Make the intended feeling unmistakably audible while preserving every word.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Make the intended feeling unmistakably audible while preserving every word.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Make the intended feeling unmistakably audible while preserving every word.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Make the intended feeling unmistakably audible while preserving every word.
SCRIPT:
(Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Make the intended feeling unmistakably audible while preserving every word.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Make the intended feeling unmistakably audible while preserving every word.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Make the intended feeling unmistakably audible while preserving every word.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.5486.3534.4040.42%0.619
none500.5486.3654.4520.33%n/a

g0-p07 · CFG 1.5

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p07 at CFG 1.5; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.5980.660
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.1770.399
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.4910.519
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.5396.3524.4500.57%0.000100.00%-0.023

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: reacting to an unheard partner.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. React to a silent partner standing beside you; generate only one adult voice.

Three local directions

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. React to a silent partner standing beside you; generate only one adult voice.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. React to a silent partner standing beside you; generate only one adult voice.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. React to a silent partner standing beside you; generate only one adult voice.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. React to a silent partner standing beside you; generate only one adult voice.
SCRIPT:
(Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. React to a silent partner standing beside you; generate only one adult voice.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. React to a silent partner standing beside you; generate only one adult voice.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. React to a silent partner standing beside you; generate only one adult voice.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.5456.3434.4350.20%0.596
none500.5346.3614.4650.95%n/a

g0-p04 · CFG 2

full-v2-gen0CANONICAL

Current ranking: EARS Steering v2

Emotion/style only. Content Enjoyment: 0%. Genuineness: 0%. These remain visible diagnostics, not reward terms. WER and speaker identity are separate qualification gates, not terms in this score.

Observed head means below refer to g0-p04 at CFG 2; every recipe also shows its own values below. These are recipe means, not one hand-picked audio.

Astonishment Surprise
emo_Astonishment_Surprise
40.00%high0.2780.5520.5570.630
Fear
emo_Fear
30.00%high0.3220.6120.2150.415
Arousal
vn_AROU_reg
30.00%high2.4371.1272.4060.490
z = (raw_EARS_head − frozen_training_mean) / frozen_training_std
high target = Φ(z); low target = 1 − Φ(z)
Steering v2 = Σ(weight × normalized_target)

Portable CPU scoring function · Exact machine-readable weights and normalizations

Φ is a Gaussian CDF using the frozen EARS training statistics. This makes mixed emotion/style heads comparable; it is not an emotion probability. It compresses extreme scores, so raw means remain visible too. A pure-emotion condition has only its named emotion head, at 100%. A mixed anger/ranting scene uses 50% Anger + 50% Ranting. Each recipe score is the mean over all its takes, including failed takes.

Unchanged gates: ≥90% valid terminated takes; per-take WER ≤15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤10%; paired reference cosine decline no worse than −0.05. Existing family-aware burst conditions still need all requested families detected in ≥60% of takes to qualify as reliable burst recipes. A high emotion/style score alone does not establish a successful scream or a correctly timed transition.

Historical quality-fitness diagnostic — not the current steering ranking

Exact score for this condition

This is the prompt-search fitness, not the training RL reward. Higher means better under this particular proxy combination, not automatically more natural or more enjoyable to a listener.

35% vocal-event match, 20% emotional arc, 15% content enjoyment, 15% genuineness, 15% burst blending. Arc head: emo_Astonishment_Surprise. The arc rewards a positive final-third minus first-third target change, not sustained high intensity. Blend contributes only when a nominal event match exists.

The corrected study additionally multiplies by the fraction of requested vocalization families detected anywhere. If none is detected, the final fitness is zero, even if the speech sounds pleasant. Detection still does not prove correct placement or natural blending.

base = (0.35 × event_match + 0.20 × rising_arc + 0.15 × clip(CE/10) + 0.15 × clip(genuineness/6) + 0.15 × blend_CDF) × (1 − min(1, WER))
fitness = base × detected_family_fraction

Fixed target normalization: z = (raw score − 0.278) / 0.552; target_CDF = Φ(z). This is a percentile-like training-distribution transform, not an emotion probability. CE and genuineness are clipped to [0, 1] after division. For burst tasks, the same target transform is used for the two arc endpoints; blend has its own frozen normalization.

WER example: WER 5% multiplies the score by 0.95; WER 20% by 0.80; WER ≥ 100% by zero. Reported raw WER remains uncapped. The displayed fitness is the mean of per-take products, not the product of the displayed means.

Separate qualification gates: at least 90% valid, terminated takes; per-take WER ≤ 15% to count as valid; candidate mean WER ≤ 10%; paired reference cosine must not fall by more than 0.05 over all 50 reference comparisons. Corrected burst conditions additionally need every requested family detected in at least 60% of takes. Passing a gate is not a weighted score bonus.

Does not pass all study gates; diagnostic only. N=100 across both languages, both reference arms and all five seeds. Full-coverage steering-v2 evolution; transfer, fixed-wording CFG and sealed splits remain distinct.

0.5236.3544.4660.47%0.001100.00%-0.025

All expected burst families anywhere: 0.00%. All nominal event-window matches: 0.00%. Detector observations, not verified true realization rates.

Prompting strategy: organic conversation.

Reusable direction recipe

Stored GENERAL content

Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Think while speaking, with organic micro pauses and spontaneous emphasis, not a polished reading.

Three local directions

1. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Think while speaking, with organic micro pauses and spontaneous emphasis, not a polished reading.
2. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Think while speaking, with organic micro pauses and spontaneous emphasis, not a polished reading.
3. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Think while speaking, with organic micro pauses and spontaneous emphasis, not a polished reading.
Exact tested prompt — fixed EN example, seed1701, no reference
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects. Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Think while speaking, with organic micro pauses and spontaneous emphasis, not a polished reading.
SCRIPT:
(Speak as if taking an ordinary relaxed walk with an unheard friend. Think while speaking, with organic micro pauses and spontaneous emphasis, not a polished reading.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(An unexpected fictional fright causes a sudden involuntary gasp and scream. Think while speaking, with organic micro pauses and spontaneous emphasis, not a polished reading.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Recover enough breath to finish the words, still visibly frightened through the voice. Think while speaking, with organic micro pauses and spontaneous emphasis, not a polished reading.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.

Literal words in the separate text field:

I thought you would be here before the lights went out. Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened. Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Exact neutral CFG branch
GENERAL: One adult speaker, clean high-quality recording, no music or sound effects.
SCRIPT:
(Natural clear speech.) [4.2 seconds duration] I thought you would be here before the lights went out.
(surprised gasp, 0.30 seconds)
(scream, 0.50 seconds)
(Natural clear speech.) [3.8 seconds duration] Wait... I need a moment to understand what just happened.
(Natural clear speech.) [3.5 seconds duration] Stay with me until I can say this properly.
Reference versus no-reference breakdown
reference500.5356.3584.4560.60%0.594
none500.5126.3504.4760.33%n/a