diff --git a/src/transformers/models/recurrent_gemma/modeling_recurrent_gemma.py b/src/transformers/models/recurrent_gemma/modeling_recurrent_gemma.py
index 5ed4049e09ae96..74fc2085c36519 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/recurrent_gemma/modeling_recurrent_gemma.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/recurrent_gemma/modeling_recurrent_gemma.py
@@ -77,15 +77,13 @@ def __init__(self, dim, base=10000, device=None):
         self.register_buffer("inv_freq", tensor=inv_freq, persistent=False)
 
     @torch.no_grad()
-    # Copied from transformers.models.gemma.modeling_gemma.GemmaRotaryEmbedding.forward with Gemma->RecurrentGemma
-    def forward(self, x, position_ids):
-        if "dynamic" in self.rope_type:
-            self._dynamic_frequency_update(position_ids, device=x.device)
-
-        # Core RoPE block
+    def forward(self, x, position_ids, seq_len=None):
+        # x: [bs, num_attention_heads, seq_len, head_size]
+        self.inv_freq.to(x.device)
         inv_freq_expanded = self.inv_freq[None, :, None].float().expand(position_ids.shape[0], -1, 1)
         position_ids_expanded = position_ids[:, None, :].float()
-        # Force float32 (see https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/29285)
+        # Force float32 since bfloat16 loses precision on long contexts
+        # See https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/29285
         device_type = x.device.type
         device_type = device_type if isinstance(device_type, str) and device_type != "mps" else "cpu"
         with torch.autocast(device_type=device_type, enabled=False):
@@ -93,11 +91,6 @@ def forward(self, x, position_ids):
             emb = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1)
             cos = emb.cos()
             sin = emb.sin()
-
-        # Advanced RoPE types (e.g. yarn) apply a post-processing scaling factor, equivalent to scaling attention
-        cos = cos * self.attention_scaling
-        sin = sin * self.attention_scaling
-
         return cos.to(dtype=x.dtype), sin.to(dtype=x.dtype)