diff --git a/model2vec/train/base.py b/model2vec/train/base.py
index 65f4b45..db1d539 100644
--- a/model2vec/train/base.py
+++ b/model2vec/train/base.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def construct_head(self) -> nn.Sequential:
 
     @classmethod
     def from_pretrained(
-        cls: type[ModelType], out_dim: int = 2, model_name: str = "minishlab/potion-base-8m", **kwargs: Any
+        cls: type[ModelType], out_dim: int = 2, model_name: str = "minishlab/potion-base-32m", **kwargs: Any
     ) -> ModelType:
         """Load the model from a pretrained model2vec model."""
         model = StaticModel.from_pretrained(model_name)
@@ -81,10 +81,9 @@ def _encode(self, input_ids: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
         # Add a small epsilon to avoid division by zero
         length = zeros.sum(1) + 1e-16
         embedded = self.embeddings(input_ids)
-        # Simulate actual mean
-        # Zero out the padding
+        # Weigh each token
         embedded = torch.bmm(w[:, None, :], embedded).squeeze(1)
-        # embedded = embedded.sum(1)
+        # Mean pooling by dividing by the length
         embedded = embedded / length[:, None]
 
         return nn.functional.normalize(embedded)
@@ -106,7 +105,7 @@ def tokenize(self, texts: list[str], max_length: int | None = 512) -> torch.Tens
         """
         encoded: list[Encoding] = self.tokenizer.encode_batch_fast(texts, add_special_tokens=False)
         encoded_ids: list[torch.Tensor] = [torch.Tensor(encoding.ids[:max_length]).long() for encoding in encoded]
-        return pad_sequence(encoded_ids, batch_first=True)
+        return pad_sequence(encoded_ids, batch_first=True, padding_value=self.pad_id)
 
     @property
     def device(self) -> str: