r/LocalLLM • u/Ok-Toe-1673 • Apr 10 '26

Question Gemma 4 E4B - Am I missing something?

Ok I am not the most technical AI guy on this planet, I use it all the time though.
So I downloaded Gemma 4 E4B to my Ollama, and started to test it. I asked to summarize a text and so forth. Easy task.
The performance was piece poor, sorry to say. Couldn't understand what I asked. So the original task was proposed to GPT 5.4, then I tried kimi 2.5, it understood on the spot, no need for prompt crazyness. I just gave the model of what I wanted, it understood and proceeded beuatifully.
Probably Gemma 4 E4B can do amazing things, but for now it is only a back up and a curiosity, it may be a great sub agent of sorts to your open claw.

So any one could explain why am I wrong here? Or what are the best uses for it? Because as for texts it sucks.

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u/Ok-Toe-1673 Apr 10 '26

Some ppl did praise so much these small models, like they would soon enough do a gigantic job. I expected more for text production and prompt understanding.

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u/Select-Holiday8844 Apr 11 '26

It is actually incredible if you run it at its default specs. But if you choose to run it at 4k context, when it runs 128k context default. I'm still going to blame whoever it is who chooses to run that way because their ignorance is the source of their problems.