diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7a727e5..97214f7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: diffuseR
 Title: Functional Interface to Diffusion Models in R
-Version: 0.1.0.7
+Version: 0.1.0.8
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Troy", "Hernandez", email = "troy@cornball.ai", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0005-4248-604X")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e03a58a..c80bb61 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# diffuseR 0.1.0.8 (development)
+
+* The Qwen3 encoder builds its additive attention mask in the query
+  dtype, fixing the "invalid dtype for bias" CUDA error every FLUX.2
+  prompt encode hit through the fused SDPA path (since #33).
+
 # diffuseR 0.1.0.7 (development)
 
 ## SDXL native pipeline from safetensors
diff --git a/R/qwen3_text_encoder.R b/R/qwen3_text_encoder.R
index 7d09e32..c68390a 100644
--- a/R/qwen3_text_encoder.R
+++ b/R/qwen3_text_encoder.R
@@ -164,17 +164,22 @@ qwen3_encoder <- torch::nn_module(
     b <- input_ids$shape[1]
     s <- input_ids$shape[2]
     device <- x$device
-    f32 <- torch::torch_float32()
+    dt <- x$dtype
 
     rope <- .qwen3_rope_tables(s, self$head_dim, self$rope_theta, device)
 
-    # Additive causal (+ padding) mask [B, 1, S, S] in float32
-    neg <- -3.4e38
-    causal <- torch::torch_full(c(s, s), neg, dtype = f32,
+    # Additive causal (+ padding) mask [B, 1, S, S] in the compute dtype:
+    # the fused SDPA kernel requires the bias dtype to match the query.
+    # -10000 (the dit_ltx23 convention) stays finite in every float
+    # dtype, including where -3.4e38 would overflow bfloat16 to -Inf.
+    # The $neg()$add(1) chain (not `1 - x`) keeps torch Scalars, since
+    # the Ops dispatch materializes R scalars as Float and promotes.
+    neg <- -10000
+    causal <- torch::torch_full(c(s, s), neg, dtype = dt,
                                 device = device)$triu(diagonal = 1L)
     mask <- causal$unsqueeze(1L)$unsqueeze(1L)$expand(c(b, 1L, s, s))
     if (!is.null(attention_mask)) {
-        pad <- (1 - attention_mask$to(dtype = f32, device = device))$mul(neg)
+        pad <- attention_mask$to(dtype = dt, device = device)$neg()$add(1)$mul(neg)
         mask <- mask + pad$unsqueeze(2L)$unsqueeze(2L)
     }