Gemma-2-2B-RYS-19-23

Gemma-2-2B-it with layers 19-22 duplicated. A late-stack reasoning circuit runs twice on every forward pass.

26 base layers β†’ 30 after duplication. No training, no merging, no weight changes.

Reasoning 58.82% β†’ 64.70% (+5.88). EQ 91.72 β†’ 93.87 (+2.15). Math 0.522 β†’ 0.5027 (βˆ’1.93). Peak reasoning Ξ” across the full 36-config sweep is +17.65%; (19,23) is the best-combined pick.

Results

Metric Baseline RYS (19,23) Delta
Math 0.522 0.5027 βˆ’1.93
EQ 91.72 93.87 +2.15
Reasoning 58.82% 64.70% +5.88

The smaller-Gemma. Within-family control for the larger Gemma-2-9B sibling. The two share baseline reasoning (58.82%) but the 9B finds richer duplicate-circuit candidates (peak +23.53% with 17 boosters) than this 2B (peak +17.65% with 4 boosters). Depth-room scaling: at matched baseline, more layers means more candidate blocks where duplication moves the reasoning probe.

Pick this when you want a tiny Gemma with reasoning lifted modestly and EQ slightly improved.

Usage

llama-server -m Gemma-2-2B-RYS-19-23-Q4_K_M.gguf -ngl 99

Full sweep data

36 configurations tested. (19,23) block-4 is the best-combined pick. Full per-config sweep + cross-architecture analysis: v2 dataset.

Part of the RYS Sovereign Collection v2.


Where this sits in the Sovereign Collection

v1 β€” Qwen2.5 cross-scale + Qwen3-32B headline crossover. 5 model repos.

v2 β€” cross-architecture corpus. 21 model variants across 10 architecture families. Inverse correlation (r = βˆ’0.726): weak baselines lift more, in their weakest dimension. 13 deployable RYS-applied weight repos covering every non-zero-lift variant.

Within-family sibling: john-broadway/Gemma-2-9B-RYS-14-18-GGUF β€” the bigger Gemma with the same baseline and more lift, plus the highest baseline EQ in the corpus.

Credit

John Broadway, with collaboration from Claude (Opus 4.6 in April 2026 sweep generation and build pipeline; Opus 4.7 in May 2026 cross-architecture analysis and publication). Original RYS method by David Ng on Qwen2-72B; sweep + probe toolkit by alainnothere.

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