diff --git a/src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py b/src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py
index 33896a9fa..d45f5a5c2 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py
@@ -524,8 +524,6 @@ class PI05Pytorch(nn.Module):  # see openpi `PI0Pytorch`
 
     def embed_suffix(self, noisy_actions, timestep):
         """Embed noisy_actions, timestep to prepare for Expert Gemma processing."""
-        embs = []
-        pad_masks = []
         att_masks = []
 
         # Embed timestep using sine-cosine positional encoding
@@ -551,23 +549,17 @@ class PI05Pytorch(nn.Module):  # see openpi `PI0Pytorch`
             return F.silu(x)
 
         time_emb = self._apply_checkpoint(time_mlp_func, time_emb)
-        action_time_emb = action_emb
         adarms_cond = time_emb
 
-        embs.append(action_time_emb)
-        bsize, action_time_dim = action_time_emb.shape[:2]
-        action_time_mask = torch.ones(bsize, action_time_dim, dtype=torch.bool, device=timestep.device)
-        pad_masks.append(action_time_mask)
+        bsize, action_time_dim = action_emb.shape[:2]
+        pad_masks = torch.ones(bsize, action_time_dim, dtype=torch.bool, device=timestep.device)
 
         # Set attention masks so that image, language and state inputs do not attend to action tokens
         att_masks += [1] + ([0] * (self.config.chunk_size - 1))
-
-        embs = torch.cat(embs, dim=1)
-        pad_masks = torch.cat(pad_masks, dim=1)
-        att_masks = torch.tensor(att_masks, dtype=embs.dtype, device=embs.device)
+        att_masks = torch.tensor(att_masks, dtype=action_emb.dtype, device=action_emb.device)
         att_masks = att_masks[None, :].expand(bsize, len(att_masks))
 
-        return embs, pad_masks, att_masks, adarms_cond
+        return action_emb, pad_masks, att_masks, adarms_cond
 
     def forward(self, images, img_masks, tokens, masks, actions, noise, time) -> Tensor:
         """Do a full training forward pass and compute the loss."""