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AI · orcarouter.ai · Sunday, 16 August 2026

Abliterated Qwen3.8-27B kills refusals (64–99% → 0–6%) with <1.3pt score loss

OrcaRouter shipped a block-FP8 Qwen3.8-27B with safety-alignment refusals orthogonalized out of the residual stream: refusal drops from 64–99% to 0–6% while MMLU and GSM8K move under 1.3 points. Released Apache-2.0 as a reproducible red-team/interpretability baseline, explicitly marked research-only with no built-in guardrails.

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