diff --git a/convert-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
index 5763b6664..1a25ba5f6 100755
--- a/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -2764,8 +2764,9 @@ class OlmoModel(Model):
     def set_gguf_parameters(self):
         super().set_gguf_parameters()
         self.gguf_writer.add_layer_norm_eps(1e-5)
-        if "clip_qkv" in self.hparams is not None:
-            self.gguf_writer.add_clamp_kqv(self.hparams["clip_qkv"])
+        clip_qkv = self.hparams.get("clip_qkv")
+        if clip_qkv is not None:
+            self.gguf_writer.add_clamp_kqv(clip_qkv)
 
     # Same as super class, but permuting q_proj, k_proj
     # Copied from: LlamaModel