diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/bert/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/bert/main.rs
index 8795faa9..4396326d 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/bert/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/bert/main.rs
@@ -743,9 +743,10 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
         println!("running inference on batch {:?}", token_ids.shape());
         let embeddings = model.forward(&token_ids, &token_type_ids)?;
         println!("generated embeddings {:?}", embeddings.shape());
-        // Take the embedding for the first token of each sentence.
-        // TODO: mean or max pooling?
-        let embeddings = embeddings.narrow(1, 0, 1)?.squeeze(1)?;
+        // Apply some avg-pooling by taking the mean embedding value for all tokens (including padding)
+        let (_n_sentence, n_tokens, _hidden_size) = embeddings.shape().r3()?;
+        let embeddings = (embeddings.sum(&[1])? / (n_tokens as f64))?.squeeze(1)?;
+        println!("pooled embeddings {:?}", embeddings.shape());
         let mut similarities = vec![];
         for i in 0..n_sentences {
             let e_i = embeddings.get(i)?;