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Qwen3-4B-Instruct's 'slop' style traced to one internal direction

Qwen3-4B-Instruct's 'slop' style traced to one internal direction

The author isolated a difference-in-means direction in Qwen3-4B-Instruct separating 64 hand-written minimal pairs, correlating up to 0.82 with a trope-based slop score, and on OLMo 2 1B found SFT installs the rhetoric and DPO doubles slop.

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