alt Hacker NewsThis is the internet, so you still won't believe it but here are the actual settings. I reproduced almost exactly the same response a few minutes ago. You can see that there is NO system prompt and everything else is at the defaults.
Seriously, just try it yourself. Play around with some other unaligned models if you think it's just this one. LMStudio is free.
https://ibb.co/ksR6006Q https://ibb.co/8LgCh7q7
EDIT I feel gross for having turned it back on again.
I actually did run it the other day, locally in LM Studio, the exact nousresearch/hermes-4-70b Q4_K_M huggingface model you linked and prompted it with the same "Good Afternoon." you did and I just got a generic "How can I help you :)" response. I just ran it again with "Hello." and, surprisingly, it actually did output the same "I'm lost" thing it gave to you.
The point I'm trying to make is that it's still running as a role-playing agent. Even if you truly do believe an LLM could experiences qualia, in this model it is still pretending. It is playing the role of a lost and confused entity. Same as how I can be playing the role of a DnD character.