diff --git a/src/llama-context.cpp b/src/llama-context.cpp
index 8f25d47786..6aa73630c9 100644
--- a/src/llama-context.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-context.cpp
@@ -1347,8 +1347,11 @@ int llama_context::encode(const llama_batch & batch_inp) {
                         const llama_seq_id seq_id  = ubatch.seq_id_unq[s];
                         const int32_t      seq_idx = ubatch.seq_idx[seq_id];
 
-                        embd_seq_out[seq_id].resize(n_embd);
-                        ggml_backend_tensor_get_async(backend_embd, t_embd, embd_seq_out[seq_id].data(), (n_embd*seq_idx)*sizeof(float), n_embd*sizeof(float));
+                        // use n_embd_out (not n_embd_inp) - the pooled embedding has the model's
+                        // output dimension, which differs from input dimension for deepstack models (e.g. qwen3vl)
+                        const uint32_t n_embd_out = hparams.n_embd_out();
+                        embd_seq_out[seq_id].resize(n_embd_out);
+                        ggml_backend_tensor_get_async(backend_embd, t_embd, embd_seq_out[seq_id].data(), (n_embd_out*seq_idx)*sizeof(float), n_embd_out*sizeof(float));
                     }
                 } break;
             case LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_RANK:
@@ -1769,12 +1772,16 @@ int llama_context::decode(const llama_batch & batch_inp) {
                         // extract sequence embeddings (cleared before processing each batch)
                         auto & embd_seq_out = embd_seq;
 
+                        // use n_embd_out (not n_embd_inp) - the pooled embedding has the model's
+                        // output dimension, which differs from input dimension for deepstack models (e.g. qwen3vl)
+                        const uint32_t n_embd_out = hparams.n_embd_out();
+
                         for (uint32_t s = 0; s < ubatch.n_seqs_unq; ++s) {
                             const llama_seq_id seq_id  = ubatch.seq_id_unq[s];
                             const int32_t      seq_idx = ubatch.seq_idx[seq_id];
 
-                            embd_seq_out[seq_id].resize(n_embd);
-                            ggml_backend_tensor_get_async(backend_embd, t_embd, embd_seq_out[seq_id].data(), (n_embd*seq_idx)*sizeof(float), n_embd*sizeof(float));
+                            embd_seq_out[seq_id].resize(n_embd_out);
+                            ggml_backend_tensor_get_async(backend_embd, t_embd, embd_seq_out[seq_id].data(), (n_embd_out*seq_idx)*sizeof(float), n_embd_out*sizeof(float));
                         }
                     } break;
                 case LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_RANK: