diff --git a/tests/model_executor/test_model_load_with_params.py b/tests/model_executor/test_model_load_with_params.py
index 3b2c3a19a83f0..6d4fb5e81194b 100644
--- a/tests/model_executor/test_model_load_with_params.py
+++ b/tests/model_executor/test_model_load_with_params.py
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import os
 
+from vllm.model_executor.layers.pooler import PoolingType
+
 MAX_MODEL_LEN = 128
 MODEL_NAME = os.environ.get("MODEL_NAME", "BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5")
 REVISION = os.environ.get("REVISION", "main")
 
-
 def test_model_loading_with_params(vllm_runner):
     """
     Test parameter weight loading with tp>1.
@@ -18,10 +19,20 @@ def test_model_loading_with_params(vllm_runner):
 
         model_config = model.model.llm_engine.model_config
 
-        print(model.model.llm_engine.__dict__.items()) 
+        model_tokenizer = model.model.llm_engine.tokenizer
 
+        # asserts on the bert model config file
         assert model_config.bert_config["max_seq_length"] == 512
         assert model_config.bert_config["do_lower_case"]
-        assert model_config.pooling_config.pooling_type == 2
+
+        # asserts on the pooling config files
+        assert model_config.pooling_config.pooling_type == PoolingType.CLS
         assert model_config.pooling_config.normalize
+
+        # asserts on the tokenizer loaded
+        assert model_tokenizer.tokenizer_id == "BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5"
+        assert model_tokenizer.tokenizer_config["do_lower_case"]
+        assert model_tokenizer.tokenizer.model_max_length == 512
+
+        # assert output
         assert output
diff --git a/vllm/config.py b/vllm/config.py
index c93d21a1e6951..67572d3edceb1 100644
--- a/vllm/config.py
+++ b/vllm/config.py
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ def __init__(self,
                                     config_format)
         self.hf_text_config = get_hf_text_config(self.hf_config)
         self.pooling_config = self.get_pooling_config()
-        self.bert_config, self.do_lower_case = self._get_bert_config()
+        self.bert_config = self._get_bert_config() 
+        self.do_lower_case = self._get_bert_config()
         self.hf_image_processor_config = get_hf_image_processor_config(
             self.model, revision)
         self.dtype = _get_and_verify_dtype(self.hf_text_config, dtype)
@@ -1756,6 +1757,7 @@ def _get_and_verify_max_len(
         "max_seq_length",
         "seq_len",
     ]
+
     # Choose the smallest "max_length" from the possible keys.
     max_len_key = None
     for key in possible_keys:
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer_group/__init__.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer_group/__init__.py
index d12d5246d9222..0b5b704d0a7c7 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer_group/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer_group/__init__.py
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ def init_tokenizer_from_configs(model_config: ModelConfig,
                        trust_remote_code=model_config.trust_remote_code,
                        revision=model_config.tokenizer_revision)
 
-    if model_config.bert_config is not None and "do_lower_case" 
-    in model_config.bert_config:
+    if model_config.bert_config is not None and "do_lower_case" in model_config.bert_config:
         init_kwargs["do_lower_case"] = model_config.bert_config["do_lower_case"]
 
     return get_tokenizer_group(parallel_config.tokenizer_pool_config,