# Tracing where LLM "slop" style comes from in the model and in training, and cutting it out [R]

> Source: <https://aiflash.com/news/134471/>
> Published: 2026-10-17 21:00:03+00:00

I wanted to find where the recognizable assistant style (em dashes, "it's not X, it's Y", lists of three, buzzwords) lives in a model and which training stage installs it. Where it lives: in Qwen3-4B-Instruct, a difference-in-means direction from the model's own exaggerated vs plain writing separate