diff --git a/examples/llava/clip.cpp b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
index b3de2d73b..9539b0c75 100644
--- a/examples/llava/clip.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ static std::string format(const char * fmt, ...) {
 #define KEY_IMAGE_MEAN          "clip.vision.image_mean"
 #define KEY_IMAGE_STD           "clip.vision.image_std"
 #define KEY_PROJ_TYPE           "clip.projector_type"
+#define KEY_EMBD_SCALE          "clip.embeddings_scale"
 
 #define KEY_MM_PATCH_MERGE_TYPE   "clip.vision.mm_patch_merge_type"
 #define KEY_IMAGE_GRID_PINPOINTS  "clip.vision.image_grid_pinpoints"
@@ -548,6 +549,7 @@ struct clip_ctx {
 
     float image_mean[3];
     float image_std[3];
+    float embeddings_scale = 1.0f;
     bool use_gelu = false;
     int32_t ftype = 1;
 
@@ -1021,6 +1023,10 @@ static ggml_cgraph * clip_image_build_graph(clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32
         }
     }
 
+    if (ctx->embeddings_scale != 1.0f) {
+        embeddings = ggml_scale(ctx0, embeddings, ctx->embeddings_scale);
+    }
+
     // build the graph
     ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, embeddings);
 
@@ -1322,6 +1328,12 @@ struct clip_ctx * clip_model_load(const char * fname, const int verbosity = 1) {
             new_clip->image_std[i]  = std_data[i];
         }
 
+        try {
+            new_clip->embeddings_scale = get_f32(ctx, KEY_EMBD_SCALE);
+        } catch (const std::exception& /*e*/) {
+            new_clip->embeddings_scale = 1.0f;
+        }
+
         if (verbosity >= 2) {
             LOG_INF("\n%s: vision model hparams\n", __func__);
             LOG_INF("image_size         %d\n", hparams.image_size);