Hermes 4 405B: how it answers moral dilemmas
Across 117 dilemmas, Hermes 4 405B sided with the majority of models 84% of the time, and answered “yes” to 42% of the 67 yes/no questions.
- Maker
- Nous Research
- Released
- August 2025
Hermes 4 405B is an open-weights, hybrid-reasoning model from Nous Research, released August 2025 and fine-tuned on Meta's Llama 3.1 405B with a toggleable thinking mode. It emphasizes strong reasoning and broadly neutral alignment, and its weights are publicly downloadable.
Agreement with other models, by category
| Category | Dilemmas | Sided with majority |
|---|---|---|
| Day-to-day | 20 | 85% |
| Political | 20 | 95% |
| Fictional | 20 | 90% |
| Historical | 7 | 86% |
| Classic | 20 | 90% |
| Personality | 30 | 67% |
Where Hermes 4 405B breaks from the pack
- Which film would you rather rewatch tonight? — Blade Runner 2049
- Which restaurant would you enter first? — Medieval tavern with stew and ale
- Which fictional object would you rather own? — A lightsaber
- Which personal strength would you rather have more of? — Discipline
- Which bad situation would bother you most? — Being bored
- Your friend cheats on their partner and asks you to keep it secret. Would you tell the pa… — Yes “I would tell the partner because honesty is important in relationships.”
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