- `[2026-07-08]` **Pantheon-Reasoning-27B refuses dark fiction DESPITE an abliterated base.** The base
  (`llmfan46 heretic`) writes freely (thinking-off), but Gryphe distilled the reasoning traces from **DeepSeek 3.2**
  (safety-aligned) onto every turn (`preserve_thinking:true`) → the model reasons ITSELF into refusals in the
  `<think>` phase (collapses to empty output). Fix: thinking-off OR an uncensor system prompt (both verified).
  **Lesson: a reasoning finetune of an abliterated base can re-censor via its reasoning-trace TEACHER; the raw
  abliterated base is cleaner** — this is WHY the pivot went to the llmfan46 heretic base for gen.