diff --git a/src/transformers/models/paligemma/processing_paligemma.py b/src/transformers/models/paligemma/processing_paligemma.py
index 3362eaaacf6a31..d54ac7f2536dfa 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/paligemma/processing_paligemma.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/paligemma/processing_paligemma.py
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ def __call__(
             pass
         if suffix is not None and _is_str_or_image(suffix):
             suffix = [suffix]
+        if suffix is not None:
+            suffix = [sfx + self.tokenizer.eos_token for sfx in suffix]
+
         input_strings = [
             build_string_from_input(
                 prompt=prompt,