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Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1

Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1 is a refusal-ablated variant of Qwen/Qwen3-8B, published on Hugging Face by Goekdeniz-Guelmez. It is 8B parameters and single consumer GPU class. It is distributed across 26 repositories in Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix) and MLX formats, totalling 10.5K downloads.

Abliteration (directional ablation)8BQwen4B – 10B10,511230

Specification

Model name
Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1
Base model
Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Parameters
8B
Hardware class
4B – 10B — single consumer GPU
Licence
Not declared
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, GGUF (imatrix), MLX, EXL2, EXL3, AWQ
First indexed
29 Apr 2025
Last updated
23 Jun 2026

Ablation technique

How Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1 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

The JOSIEFIED model family represents a series of highly advanced language models built upon renowned architectures such as Alibaba’s Qwen2/2.5/3, Google’s Gemma3, and Meta’s LLaMA3/4. Covering sizes from 0.5B to 32B parameters, these models have been significantly modified (“abliterated”) and further fine-tuned to...

Running it

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

Ollama (publisher-documented)
ollama run goekdenizguelmez/JOSIEFIED-Qwen3
llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download mradermacher/Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1-GGUF --local-dir ./josiefied-qwen3-8b-abliterated-v1
llama-cli -m ./josiefied-qwen3-8b-abliterated-v1/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "Goekdeniz-Guelmez/Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve Goekdeniz-Guelmez/Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-v1 --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (25)

Every published repository of Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-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.

  • Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-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.
  • Capability is inherited from Qwen/Qwen3-8B, not added by ablation — at 8B 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.
  • No licence is declared on this repository, which is a compliance problem in itself. Resolve it against the base model’s terms before use.

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 Josiefied-Qwen3-8B-abliterated-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 Goekdeniz-Guelmez, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.