This is the Story Focused merge. This version works better for storytelling and scenarios, as the prose is more novel-like and it has a tendency to impersonate the user character.

See the Alternate RP Focused version as well.

This is a merge of two G3 models, one trained on instruct and one trained on base:

allura-org/Gemma-3-Glitter-12B - Itself a merge of a storywriting and RP train (both also by ToastyPigeon), on instruct
ToastyPigeon/Gemma-3-Confetti-12B - Experimental application of the Glitter data using base instead of instruct, additionally includes some adventure data in the form of SpringDragon.

The result is a lovely blend of Glitter's ability to follow instructions and Confetti's free-spirit prose, effectively 'loosening up' much of the hesitancy that was left in Glitter.

Update: Vision tower is back! Have fun.

Thank you to jebcarter for the idea to make this. I love how it turned out!

Instruct Format

Uses Gemma2/3 instruct, but has been trained to recognize an optional system role.

Note: While it won't immediately balk at the system role, results may be better without it.

<start_of_turn>system
{optional system turn with prompt}<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>user
{User messages; can also put sysprompt here to use the built-in g3 training}<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>model
{model response}<end_of_turn>

Merge Configuration

Yeah, I actually tried several things and surprisingly this one worked best.

yaml

models:
  - model: ToastyPigeon/Gemma-3-Confetti-12B
    parameters:
      weight: 0.5
  - model: allura-org/Gemma-3-Glitter-12B
    parameters:
      weight: 0.5
merge_method: linear
tokenizer_source: allura-org/Gemma-3-Glitter-12B

ToastyPigeon/Gemma-3-Starshine-12B

🌠G3 Starshine 12B🌠

Instruct Format

Merge Configuration

ToastyPigeon/
Gemma-3-Starshine-12B