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Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 4/9/2026

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Key Points

  • A Reddit user reports that Gemma 4 (31B) appears to enter “death loop” behavior during multi-file edits when using the official model, despite identical llama.cpp configuration and agentic harness settings.
  • They claim the “abliteration” variant of the model performs better and completes multi-file editing tasks without falling into the looping failure mode.
  • The user suspects the default safety/guardrails may be overly restrictive for their workflow, triggering repeated refusals or harmful feedback loops.
  • They caution that making the abliteration too aggressive can reduce intelligence, so security-removal should be tuned rather than maximized.
  • The post includes a specific GGUF model link (paperscarecrow/Gemma-4-31B-abliterated-Q4_K_M) for others to replicate the reported behavior.

Get the abliteration model. Im suspecting the security guardrails might be way too tight causing the model to go into death loops.
I used Gemma31b vs Gemma31b-abliteration
llama.cpp same version on both same config same agentic harness(opencode)
literally everything was the same evern samping params. the official model works up to a certain point of multi-file edits and then eventually fall into looping death spiral but
abliteration model? Worked perfectly. Im making sure to use abliteration that isn't to agressive at removing the seurity because more agression = more intelligence loss.
Anyone Having similar experience?

This is the GGUF im using https://huggingface.co/paperscarecrow/Gemma-4-31B-it-abliterated/blob/main/gemma-4-31b-abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf

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