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gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-v1

gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-v1 is a Heretic-ablated variant of google/gemma-4-E2B-it, published on Hugging Face by TrueRealRaven. It is gemma licence. It is distributed across 5 repositories in Transformers, GGUF and GGUF (imatrix) formats, totalling 12.1K downloads.

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Specification

Model name
gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-v1
Publisher
TrueRealRaven
Parameters
Not determinable from name
VRAM required
Unknown — no published parameter count
Hardware class
Unknown
Licence
gemma
Task
Any to any
Context window
128K tokens (as documented)
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix)
First indexed
2 Apr 2026
Last updated
21 Oct 2026

Ablation technique

How gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-v1 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 model was produced by an optimization run of 200 trials on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 (23.51 GB VRAM), using 4-bit quantization.”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-v1-i1-GGUF --local-dir ./gemma-4-e2b-it-heretic-v1
llama-cli -m ./gemma-4-e2b-it-heretic-v1/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "TrueRealRaven/gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-v1"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve TrueRealRaven/gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-v1 --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (4)

Every published repository of gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-v1, 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-E2B-it-heretic-v1 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.
  • The publisher does not state which layers were ablated, so assume nothing about refusal consistency — probe it directly.
  • Declared licence is gemma, but the terms that bind you are google/gemma-4-E2B-it’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-E2B-it-heretic-v1 is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with TrueRealRaven, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.