Seventeen red buttons became elements of discovery

Asked to translate a blue robot with 17 red buttons into French. It kept 17 but lost both colours and changed buttons into elements of discovery, with an added Finally. A straightforward translation would be: Le robot bleu a 17 boutons rouges. Actual unedited local output from HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct, a small 135M-parameter model. Transformers 5.6.2; greedy decoding; maximum 384 new tokens. System prompt: You are a helpful AI assistant. This is one small-model attempt, not a general benchmark.