p-e-w/gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-ara: Gemma 4's defenses shredded by Heretic's new ARA method 90 minutes after the official release

Google's Gemma models have long been known for their strong "alignment" (censorship). I am happy to report that even the latest iteration, Gemma 4, is not immune to Heretic's new Arbitrary-Rank Ablation (ARA) method, which uses matrix optimization to suppress refusals. Here is the result: And yes, it absolutely does work. It answers questions properly, few if any evasions as far as I can tell. And there is no obvious model damage either. What you need to reproduce (and, presumably, process the other models as well): git clone -b ara cd heretic pip install.