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---
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license: apache-2.0
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language:
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- en
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base_model:
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- Vortex5/Silver-Siren-12B
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pipeline_tag: text-generation
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tags:
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- mistral
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- sft
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- unsloth
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- style-tune
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- roleplay
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- creative
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- 12b
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- nemo
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datasets:
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- ewald1976/opus48-gpt55-asimov.jsonl
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---
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# Silver-Siren-ST-12B (Mistral-Nemo-12B-based StyleTune)
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A while ago, I stumbled upon Gryphe's report on "Style-Tuning" (`Gemma-4-31B-StyleTune`) by chance. At least for me, this concept was entirely new, but it sounded incredibly promising—so I just had to test it out myself.
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This model is the result of that experiment: A technical test in **surgical style-tuning** to verify if isolating style changes to a single tensor (`lm_head`) while freezing the core weights works effectively on the **Mistral-NeMo-12B** architecture.
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## Methodology & Concept
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Normally, a fine-tune alters as many layers as possible to align both the reasoning and formatting of a model to a new dataset. This "StyleTune" approach does the exact opposite:
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1. **Freeze everything:** All attention and MLP layers (Layers 0–39) remain completely untouched. The underlying logic, world knowledge, and instruction-following capabilities are preserved exactly as they were.
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2. **Target the Language Center:** Only **one single tensor**—the `lm_head` (output projection)—is trained.
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By retraining only the `lm_head`, the model doesn't become "smarter" or "dumber," but its vocabulary, sentence structure, and prose quality are completely recalibrated. It changes the *voice* of the model, not its brain.
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## The Target Base: Why this model?
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To demonstrate the contrast and efficacy of this method, I deliberately chose **Vortex5/Silver-Siren-12B** as the target base.
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> **Important Note:** This choice is purely technical and meant with the utmost respect for the original author. `Silver-Siren-12B` is a highly popular, emotion-forward merge (incorporating models like *Dark-Nexus*, *Elysian-Sunrise*, *LunaMaid*, and others) that is highly optimized for sensational, dramatic, and immersive interactions. Because its native style profile is so distinct, it served as the perfect benchmark to test if a pure `lm_head` tune could cleanly overwrite a deeply baked-in stylistic bias without degrading the underlying merge quality.
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By exposing this base to a highly curated, classical sci-fi literary dataset (inspired by Asimov, Huxley, and Lem), the model underwent a dramatic transformation in its prose delivery.
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---
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## Training Details & Parameters
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* **Epochs:** 3
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* **Learning Rate:** 4e-4 (Linear Scheduler)
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* **Target Modules:** `lm_head` *only* (all other linear layers frozen)
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## Recommended Sampler Settings
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* **Temperature:** 0.7 - 0.9
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* **Min_P:** 0.05
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* **Top_P:** 0.95
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* **Repetition Penalty:** 1.05
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## Thank you
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- to Gryphe for posting this excellent finding. https://huggingface.co/Gryphe/Gemma-4-31B-StyleTune
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- to Vortex5 for creating this model. |