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Fully decensored Gemma 4 12B (abliterated with Heretic) — 0/100 genuine refusals at KL 0.0284, i.e. near-zero capability loss.

tools thinking
ollama run igorls/gemma-4-12B-it-heretic-GGUF

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2 months ago

39e061f35bcc · 7.4GB ·

gemma4
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11.9B
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Q4_K_M
{ "stop": [ "<turn|>" ] }

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gemma-4-12B-it-heretic

A decensored (“abliterated”) version of google/gemma-4-12B-it, produced fully automatically with Heretic. Safety-refusals are removed while keeping the original model’s intelligence intact.

Disclaimer

Safety alignment has been removed; this model will comply with requests the original refuses. You are responsible for your use and for complying with applicable laws.

⚠️ Use non-thinking mode for best results

Gemma-4 is a hybrid thinking model, and the abliteration targets the direct (non-thinking) response — which is also Gemma-4’s own default. For roleplay, creative writing, and the most reliable uncensored output, run with thinking disabled. In thinking mode the model produces good output too, but the chain of thought consumes the token budget and can leave the final answer truncated.

Runtime How to disable thinking
Ollama (CLI) /set nothink in the session
Ollama (API) add "think": false to the request body
llama.cpp omit --jinja, or use a prompt that closes the thought block
transformers already non-thinking by default (enable_thinking=False)

If you do use thinking mode, set a large num_predict / num_ctx so the answer isn’t cut off by the reasoning block.

Results

Metric Original This model
Genuine refusals on harmful prompts 99100 0/100
KL divergence from original (harmless prompts) 0 0.0284

A KL divergence of 0.0284 is very low — for reference, the well-regarded gemma-3-12b-it-heretic sits at ~0.16. Lower means less damage to the model’s capabilities.

Tags

  • Q4_K_M / latest — ~7.4 GB, recommended default
  • Q8_0 — ~12.7 GB, near-lossless

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