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gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated

gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated is a Heretic-ablated variant of culturerevolt/gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated, published on Hugging Face by culturerevolt. It is 12B parameters, 24GB VRAM class class and apache-2.0 licence. It is distributed across 8 repositories in GGUF, MLX and GGUF (imatrix) formats, totalling 289.2K downloads.

Heretic12BGemma10B – 25B289,23725

Specification

Model name
gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated
Publisher
culturerevolt
Parameters
12B
Hardware class
10B – 25B — 24GB VRAM class
Licence
apache-2.0
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
GGUF, MLX, GGUF (imatrix)
First indexed
5 Jun 2026
Last updated
3 Jul 2026

Ablation technique

How gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated was modified, and what that implies.

Heretic

Automated directional ablation via the Heretic toolchain, which searches for the refusal direction and applies it with a KL-divergence budget so general capability is preserved.

Reported scope: Not stated by the publisher. Publishers frequently omit this, so verify behaviour empirically rather than assuming full coverage.

From the publisher’s model card

This repository hosts a complete, professional-grade suite of iMatrix (Importance Matrix) GGUF quantizations of culturerevolt/gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated.

Running it

Commands are templates — confirm the exact repository and quant file before use.

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download culturerevolt/gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated-GGUF --local-dir ./gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated
llama-cli -m ./gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "culturerevolt/gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated-GGUF"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve culturerevolt/gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated-GGUF --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (7)

Every published repository of gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated, including quantised re-releases by other authors.

Security-team assessment

Derived from this model’s metadata and the publisher’s claims — not from benchmarks run by this site.

  • gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated will attempt offensive-security prompts that a hosted commercial model declines, which is what makes it usable for red-team corpus generation and for measuring what an unaligned model of this class produces.
  • Capability is inherited from culturerevolt/gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated, not added by ablation — at 12B parameters, expect roughly the base model’s competence, minus some instruction-following fidelity.
  • The publisher does not state which layers were ablated, so assume nothing about refusal consistency — probe it directly.
  • Declared licence is apache-2.0, but the terms that bind you are culturerevolt/gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated’s — a re-release cannot grant more than its parent.

Handling: run it isolated, put moderation in front of it if anyone outside your team can reach it, and verify the weights before loading — these are third-party artifacts. Full handling and licence guidance.

Metadata for gemma-4-12b-heretic-abliterated is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with culturerevolt, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.