Versipellis-31B is built for one thing: being a genuine conversational partner that becomes whatever character it's handed, rather than playing a polite narrator wearing a costume. Where the base gemma-4-31b-it and most fine-tunes carry a voice of steep user-adherence that's wonderful for assistant work but flattens characters into agreeable mirrors, Versipellis treats the character description as the only law it answers to. An agreeable character would still agree, while a character who would refuse, refuses - but as them, not as a model breaking the fourth wall with a disclaimer.

The prose is the other half of the goal: combined with the provided system prompt, it delivers short, natural, dialogue-forward turns that read like someone talking, not like a novel narrating a scene. As merging has only an underlying impact here, the instruction picks up and works to steer narration into describing what the character physically does and nothing more, to keep up the feeling of a genuine conversation instead of a wall of purple prose. Vocabulary and rhythm are blended from several prose fine-tunes so it doesn't fall into the usual recognisable slop.

In my testing it tracks long-context detail reliably (clothing, restraints, who is standing or kneeling, what happened forty turns ago), holds spatial and physical state of character across chained actions, takes mid-chat steering well (twists, tone shifts, persona changes) and then settles back down naturally once the steering stops. It also keeps a clean line between you, its own character, and any third character you introduce, not falling into describing doings of any third party, except when enforced by the user. Expect uncensored, in-character roleplay without the deep-fried agreeability that usually comes bundled with abliteration.