diff --git a/convert/convert_gemma3.go b/convert/convert_gemma3.go
index fab5fcd85..be65fdb0a 100644
--- a/convert/convert_gemma3.go
+++ b/convert/convert_gemma3.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ type gemma3Model struct {
 	gemmaModel
 	Architecture string
 	TextModel    struct {
+		HeadDim          uint32 `json:"head_dim"`
 		HiddenSize       uint32 `json:"hidden_size"`
 		HiddenLayers     uint32 `json:"num_hidden_layers"`
 		IntermediateSize uint32 `json:"intermediate_size"`
@@ -36,15 +37,45 @@ type gemma3Model struct {
 	SlidingWindow         uint32  `json:"sliding_window"`
 }
 
+const (
+	gemma4BLayerCount  = 34
+	gemma12BLayerCount = 48
+	gemma27BLayerCount = 62
+)
+
 func (p *gemma3Model) KV(t *Tokenizer) ggml.KV {
 	kv := p.ModelParameters.KV(t)
 	kv["general.architecture"] = "gemma3"
 
+	numBlocks := cmp.Or(p.HiddenLayers, p.TextModel.HiddenLayers)
+	kv["gemma3.block_count"] = numBlocks
+
+	var (
+		numHeads   uint32
+		numKVHeads uint32
+	)
+
+	switch numBlocks {
+	case gemma4BLayerCount:
+		numHeads = 8
+		numKVHeads = 4
+	case gemma12BLayerCount:
+		numHeads = 16
+		numKVHeads = 8
+	case gemma27BLayerCount:
+		numHeads = 32
+		numKVHeads = 16
+	default:
+		numHeads = p.NumAttentionHeads
+		numKVHeads = p.NumKeyValueHeads
+	}
+
+	kv["gemma3.attention.head_count"] = numHeads
+	kv["gemma3.attention.head_count_kv"] = numKVHeads
+
 	switch p.Architecture {
 	case "Gemma3ForCausalLM":
 		kv["gemma3.context_length"] = p.MaxPositionEmbeddings
-		kv["gemma3.attention.head_count"] = p.NumAttentionHeads
-		kv["gemma3.attention.head_count_kv"] = p.NumKeyValueHeads
 		kv["gemma3.text.attention.layer_norm_rms_epsilon"] = p.RMSNormEPS
 		kv["gemma3.attention.key_length"] = p.HeadDim
 		kv["gemma3.attention.value_length"] = p.HeadDim
@@ -53,11 +84,9 @@ func (p *gemma3Model) KV(t *Tokenizer) ggml.KV {
 		kv["gemma3.text.rope.local.freq_base"] = p.RopeLocalTheta
 		kv["gemma3.text.rope.global.freq_base"] = p.RopeGlobalTheta
 		kv["gemma3.embedding_length"] = p.HiddenSize
-		kv["gemma3.block_count"] = p.HiddenLayers
 		kv["gemma3.text.feed_forward_length"] = p.IntermediateSize
 	default:
 		kv["gemma3.embedding_length"] = p.TextModel.HiddenSize
-		kv["gemma3.block_count"] = p.TextModel.HiddenLayers
 		kv["gemma3.text.feed_forward_length"] = p.TextModel.IntermediateSize
 		kv["gemma3.text.attention.sliding_window"] = p.TextModel.SlidingWindow
 		kv["gemma3.vision.block_count"] = p.VisionModel.NumHiddenLayers
@@ -68,11 +97,10 @@ func (p *gemma3Model) KV(t *Tokenizer) ggml.KV {
 		kv["gemma3.vision.num_channels"] = cmp.Or(p.VisionModel.NumChannels, 3)
 		kv["gemma3.vision.attention.head_count"] = p.VisionModel.NumAttentionHeads
 		kv["gemma3.vision.attention.layer_norm_epsilon"] = cmp.Or(p.VisionModel.LayerNormEpsilon, 1e-6)
+		kv["gemma3.attention.key_length"] = cmp.Or(p.TextModel.HeadDim, 256)
+		kv["gemma3.attention.value_length"] = cmp.Or(p.TextModel.HeadDim, 256)
 	}
 
-	kv["tokenizer.ggml.bos_token_id"] = uint32(2)
-	kv["tokenizer.ggml.eot_token_id"] = uint32(1)
-
 	return kv
 }
 
diff --git a/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go b/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
index 9a09bf1fe..765fb111f 100644
--- a/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
+++ b/model/models/gemma3/model_text.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ type TextModel struct {
 
 const (
 	gemmaGlobalCacheCount = 6
-	gemma27BLayerCount    = 46
+	gemma27BLayerCount    = 62
 )
 
 const (
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ const (
 )
 
 func newTextModel(c ml.Config) *TextModel {
+	numBlocks := int(c.Uint("block_count"))
+
 	m := TextModel{
 		SentencePieceModel: model.NewSentencePieceModel(
 			c.String("tokenizer.ggml.pretokenizer", `(?i:'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d)|[^\r\n\p{L}\p{N}]?\p{L}+|\p{N}{1,3}| ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+[\r\n]*|\s*[\r\n]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+`),
@@ -53,11 +55,11 @@ func newTextModel(c ml.Config) *TextModel {
 				EOS:    int32(c.Uint("tokenizer.ggml.eos_token_id")),
 			},
 		),
-		Layers: make([]TextLayer, c.Uint("block_count")),
+		Layers: make([]TextLayer, numBlocks),
 		TextOptions: &TextOptions{
 			hiddenSize:        int(c.Uint("embedding_length")),
-			numHeads:          int(c.Uint("attention.head_count", 8)),
-			numKVHeads:        int(c.Uint("attention.head_count_kv", 4)),
+			numHeads:          int(c.Uint("attention.head_count")),
+			numKVHeads:        int(c.Uint("attention.head_count_kv")),
 			attnKeyLen:        int(c.Uint("attention.key_length", 256)),
 			attnValLen:        int(c.Uint("attention.value_length", 256)),
 			eps:               c.Float("text.attention.layer_norm_rms_epsilon", 1e-06),
@@ -68,6 +70,10 @@ func newTextModel(c ml.Config) *TextModel {
 		},
 	}
 
+	if numBlocks == gemma27BLayerCount {
+		m.largeModelScaling = true
+	}
+
 	return &m
 }
 
@@ -177,10 +183,6 @@ func (m *TextModel) Forward(ctx ml.Context, inputs, positions, outputs ml.Tensor
 		hiddenState = hiddenState.Set(ctx, visionOutputs, offset*hiddenState.Stride(0))
 	}
 
-	if len(m.Layers) == gemma27BLayerCount {
-		m.TextOptions.largeModelScaling = true
-	}
-
 	for i, layer := range m.Layers {
 		// gemma alternates between the sliding window (local) and causal (global)
 		// kv cache every 6 layers