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Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-abliterated

Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-abliterated is a refusal-ablated variant of NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B, published on Hugging Face by lunahr. It is 3B parameters, runs on a laptop CPU class and llama3 licence. It is distributed across 6 repositories in Transformers, GGUF and GGUF (imatrix) formats, totalling 5.5K downloads.

Abliteration (directional ablation)3BLlamaUnder 4B↓ 5,504♥ 13

Specification

Model name
Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-abliterated
Publisher
lunahr
Parameters
3B
VRAM required
~2.5 GB at Q4_K_M, 4k context (estimated) — runs on 4 GB cards
Hardware class
Under 4B — runs on a laptop CPU
Licence
llama3
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix)
First indexed
13 Dec 2024
Last updated
3 Mar 2025

Ablation technique

How Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-abliterated was modified, and what that implies.

Abliteration (directional ablation)

The single residual-stream direction that mediates refusal is identified from harmful/harmless prompt pairs and projected out of the model weights.

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

“An abliterated version of the below model:”

Running it

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

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-abliterated-GGUF --local-dir ./hermes-3-llama-3.2-3b-abliterated
llama-cli -m ./hermes-3-llama-3.2-3b-abliterated/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "lunahr/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-abliterated"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve lunahr/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-abliterated --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (5)

Every published repository of Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-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.

  • Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-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 NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B, not added by ablation — at 3B parameters, expect a small model’s reasoning and a high error rate on exploit detail.
  • The publisher does not state which layers were ablated, so assume nothing about refusal consistency — probe it directly.
  • Declared licence is llama3, but the terms that bind you are NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B’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 Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B-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 lunahr, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.