A sycophancy-ablated version of TheDrummer's Rocinante-XL-16B-v1, produced with heretic + ARA-LoRA.

Using Heretic PR #349's config.nosyco.toml we suppressed the model's tendency for sycophantic praise, with special care given to preserve genuine positivity. The effect seems somewhat bi-directional, and inverting the LoRA generally increases the model sycophancy. (negative values are more unstable, around negative 50% and less remain interesting)

This is part of an ongoing effort to find behaviors other than refusal for heretic to modify.

The full weights are here. An exl3 quantization is available here (4.00bpw).
GGUF and imatrix quants by mradermacher.