Reddit user says a chat-template tweak can force Laguna-S-2.1 into longer reasoning

SnooPaintings8639 · reddit · 2026-07-22

A Reddit user says Laguna-S-2.1 often avoids reasoning on medium-hard questions, which hurts output quality.

They propose a simple chat-template tweak: when reasoning is enabled, insert a newline after the <think> tag so the model is effectively forced to think. In their tests at Q2 quantization, this produced much more verbose reasoning, from single-sentence explanations on greetings to tens of thousands of tokens on coding tasks.

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