diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3b71d6394..638f710e9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
   add `cli/image-exif.py` that can be used to view/extract metadata from images  
 - lower overhead on generate calls  
 - auto-synchronize modernui and core branches  
-- add option to pad prompt with empty embeds, thanks @Disty
+- add option to pad prompt with zeros, thanks @Disty
 
 ## Fixes
 
diff --git a/modules/prompt_parser_diffusers.py b/modules/prompt_parser_diffusers.py
index 8df78d3bc..3c472b227 100644
--- a/modules/prompt_parser_diffusers.py
+++ b/modules/prompt_parser_diffusers.py
@@ -237,12 +237,13 @@ def pad_to_same_length(pipe, embeds):
     if not hasattr(pipe, 'encode_prompt') and 'StableCascade' not in pipe.__class__.__name__:
         return embeds
     device = pipe.device if str(pipe.device) != 'meta' else devices.device
-    if shared.opts.diffusers_empty_prompt_pad:
-        empty_embed = [torch.empty((1, 77, embeds[0].shape[2]), device=device, dtype=embeds[0].dtype)]
+    if shared.opts.diffusers_zeros_prompt_pad:
+        empty_embed = [torch.zeros((1, 77, embeds[0].shape[2]), device=device, dtype=embeds[0].dtype)]
     else:
         try:
             if 'StableCascade' in pipe.__class__.__name__:
-                empty_embed = [torch.zeros((1, 77, embeds[0].shape[2]), device=device, dtype=embeds[0].dtype)]
+                empty_embed = pipe.prior_pipe.encode_prompt(device, 1, 1, False, prompt="")
+                empty_embed = [torch.nn.functional.normalize(empty_embed[0])]
             else:
                 empty_embed = pipe.encode_prompt("")
         except TypeError:  # SD1.5
diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 5c430c309..0588bca21 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ options_templates.update(options_section(('diffusers', "Diffusers Settings"), {
     "disable_accelerate": OptionInfo(False, "Disable accelerate"),
     "diffusers_force_zeros": OptionInfo(False, "Force zeros for prompts when empty", gr.Checkbox, {"visible": False}),
     "diffusers_pooled": OptionInfo("default", "Diffusers SDXL pooled embeds", gr.Radio, {"choices": ['default', 'weighted']}),
-    "diffusers_empty_prompt_pad": OptionInfo(False, "Use empty values for prompt padding", gr.Checkbox),
+    "diffusers_zeros_prompt_pad": OptionInfo(False, "Use zeros for prompt padding", gr.Checkbox),
     "huggingface_token": OptionInfo('', 'HuggingFace token'),
 
     "onnx_sep": OptionInfo("<h2>ONNX Runtime</h2>", "", gr.HTML),