diff --git a/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go b/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
index 37e688d6..759cc6b3 100644
--- a/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
+++ b/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ type TextConfig struct {
 	finalLogitSoftcap                float32
 }
 
-func (o TextConfig) applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx ml.Context, states, positions ml.Tensor, base float32) ml.Tensor {
+func (o TextConfig) applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx ml.Context, states, positions ml.Tensor, base, scale float32) ml.Tensor {
 	ropeOpts := []func(*rope.Options){rope.WithTypeNeoX()}
 	if o.ropeType == "yarn" {
-		attnFactor := float32(1.0 / (1.0 + 0.1*math.Log(float64(o.ropeScale))))
+		attnFactor := float32(1.0 / (1.0 + 0.1*math.Log(float64(scale))))
 		ropeOpts = append(ropeOpts,
 			rope.WithOriginalContextLength(o.ropeOriginalContext),
 			rope.WithExtrapolationFactor(o.ropeExtrapolation),
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func (o TextConfig) applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx ml.Context, states, positi
 		)
 	}
 
-	return nn.RoPE(ctx, states, positions, o.attnKeyLen, base, 1./o.ropeScale, ropeOpts...)
+	return nn.RoPE(ctx, states, positions, o.attnKeyLen, base, 1./scale, ropeOpts...)
 }
 
 type TextModel struct {
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ func newTextModel(c fs.Config) *TextModel {
 			ropeExtrapolation:    c.Float("rope.scaling.extrapolation_factor", 1.0),
 			ropeBetaFast:         c.Float("rope.scaling.beta_fast", 64.0),
 			ropeBetaSlow:         c.Float("rope.scaling.beta_slow", 1.0),
-			ropeScale:            c.Float("rope.scaling.factor", 1.0),
+			ropeScale:            c.Float("rope.scaling.factor", 8.0),
 			finalLogitSoftcap:    c.Float("final_logit_softcapping", 0.0),
 		},
 	}
@@ -117,31 +117,31 @@ type TextSelfAttention struct {
 	Output    *nn.Linear  `gguf:"attn_output"`
 }
 
-func (opts *TextConfig) ropeBaseForLayer(layer int) float32 {
+func (opts *TextConfig) ropeValuesForLayer(layer int) (base float32, scale float32) {
 	if opts.slidingWindowPattern != nil && opts.slidingWindowPattern[layer] {
-		return opts.ropeLocalBase
+		return opts.ropeLocalBase, 1.0
 	}
 
 	// Standard Gemma3: only every n-th layer is global,
 	// where n = gemmaGlobalCacheCount, otherwise use
 	// the local rope base
 	if (layer+1)%gemmaGlobalCacheCount > 0 {
-		return opts.ropeLocalBase
+		return opts.ropeLocalBase, 1.0
 	}
 
 	// default to global rope base
-	return opts.ropeBase
+	return opts.ropeBase, opts.ropeScale
 }
 
 func (sa *TextSelfAttention) Forward(ctx ml.Context, layer int, hiddenState, positionIDs ml.Tensor, cache kvcache.Cache, opts *TextConfig) ml.Tensor {
 	batchSize := hiddenState.Dim(1)
 
-	ropeBase := opts.ropeBaseForLayer(layer)
+	ropeBase, ropeScale := opts.ropeValuesForLayer(layer)
 
 	q := sa.Query.Forward(ctx, hiddenState)
 	q = q.Reshape(ctx, opts.attnKeyLen, opts.numHeads, batchSize)
 	q = sa.QueryNorm.Forward(ctx, q, opts.eps)
-	q = opts.applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx, q, positionIDs, ropeBase)
+	q = opts.applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx, q, positionIDs, ropeBase, ropeScale)
 
 	if opts.largeModelScaling {
 		q = q.Scale(ctx, 1.0/math.Sqrt(float64(opts.hiddenSize/opts.numHeads)))
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ func (sa *TextSelfAttention) Forward(ctx ml.Context, layer int, hiddenState, pos
 	k := sa.Key.Forward(ctx, hiddenState)
 	k = k.Reshape(ctx, opts.attnKeyLen, opts.numKVHeads, batchSize)
 	k = sa.KeyNorm.Forward(ctx, k, opts.eps)
-	k = opts.applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx, k, positionIDs, ropeBase)
+	k = opts.applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx, k, positionIDs, ropeBase, ropeScale)
 
 	v := sa.Value.Forward(ctx, hiddenState)
 	v = v.Reshape(ctx, opts.attnValLen, opts.numKVHeads, batchSize)
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ func (sa *TextSelfAttention) Forward(ctx ml.Context, layer int, hiddenState, pos
 }
 
 func (m *TextModel) Shift(ctx ml.Context, layer int, key, shift ml.Tensor) (ml.Tensor, error) {
-	return m.applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx, key, shift, m.TextConfig.ropeBaseForLayer(layer)), nil
+	ropeBase, ropeScale := m.TextConfig.ropeValuesForLayer(layer)
+	return m.applyRotaryPositionEmbeddings(ctx, key, shift, ropeBase, ropeScale), nil
 }
 
 type TextMLP struct {