Gemma 4 4B takes 3 minutes to say "hello" through Claude Code — is this normal?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>In Claude chat noticing the Claude spinner shows immediately but taking several seconds before any “thinking…” type of response is displayed.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF">https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF</a></p> <p><a

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1srhtvg/where_we_are_in_a_year_everything_has_changed/"> <img alt="Where we are. In a year, everything has

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I can't get my model to think. According to the <a href="https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B">documentation</a>, thinking should be

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>OpenAI's Plus at $20 is genuinely usable. Not perfect, but you get real work done. That's fine.</p> <p>Anthropic is a different story. Claude's

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey all, </p> <p>im having a crisis that i just cant figure... </p> <p>i used Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF:UD-Q8_K_XL ever since it came out (on a DGX SPARK)

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>so today I tried the Obsidian LLM wiki system by Karparthy, but with Gemma 4 locally in OpenCode with instead of Claude code. </p> <p>My

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey all, I have a long-form context companion.advisor running on qwen 27b through lm studios and openclaw, I really like Gemini for conversations