diff --git a/src/basic_memory/repository/fastembed_provider.py b/src/basic_memory/repository/fastembed_provider.py
index 5ade579e9..3d637aced 100644
--- a/src/basic_memory/repository/fastembed_provider.py
+++ b/src/basic_memory/repository/fastembed_provider.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
+import math
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 from loguru import logger
@@ -119,10 +120,17 @@ def _embed_batch() -> list[list[float]]:
             if effective_parallel is not None:
                 embed_kwargs["parallel"] = effective_parallel
             vectors = list(model.embed(texts, **embed_kwargs))
+            # sqlite_search_repository.py uses a distance-to-similarity formula that assumes
+            # unit-normalized vectors (see the comment on line 65-67 of that file).
+            # Some models (e.g. multilingual ones) return vectors with norm > 1, so we
+            # L2-normalize here to satisfy that contract regardless of the chosen model.
             normalized: list[list[float]] = []
             for vector in vectors:
-                values = vector.tolist() if hasattr(vector, "tolist") else vector
-                normalized.append([float(value) for value in values])
+                values = vector.tolist() if hasattr(vector, "tolist") else list(vector)
+                norm = math.sqrt(sum(x * x for x in values))
+                if norm > 0:
+                    values = [x / norm for x in values]
+                normalized.append([float(v) for v in values])
             return normalized
 
         vectors = await asyncio.to_thread(_embed_batch)
diff --git a/tests/repository/test_fastembed_provider.py b/tests/repository/test_fastembed_provider.py
index bc0aed7ca..a8e073d8c 100644
--- a/tests/repository/test_fastembed_provider.py
+++ b/tests/repository/test_fastembed_provider.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """Tests for FastEmbedEmbeddingProvider."""
 
 import builtins
+import math
 import sys
 
 import pytest
@@ -148,3 +149,65 @@ async def test_fastembed_provider_parallel_two_passes_multiprocessing(monkeypatc
     await provider.embed_documents(["parallel enabled"])
 
     assert _StubTextEmbedding.last_embed_kwargs == {"batch_size": 64, "parallel": 2}
+
+
+class _UnormalizedVector:
+    """Stub vector with norm != 1 (simulates multilingual models like paraphrase-multilingual-*)."""
+
+    def __init__(self, values):
+        self._values = values
+
+    def tolist(self):
+        return self._values
+
+
+class _UnnormalizedTextEmbedding:
+    def __init__(self, model_name: str, **_kwargs):
+        self.model_name = model_name
+
+    def embed(self, texts: list[str], **_kwargs):
+        # Return a vector with norm ~= 2.9 (typical for multilingual MiniLM models)
+        for _ in texts:
+            yield _UnormalizedVector([1.5, 2.0, 1.0, 0.5])
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_fastembed_provider_l2_normalizes_output_vectors(monkeypatch):
+    """Returned vectors must be unit-normalized regardless of the raw model output.
+
+    sqlite_search_repository uses a formula that assumes norm == 1. Models such as
+    paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 return vectors with norm ~2.9, which breaks
+    cosine similarity scoring. The provider must apply L2 normalization before returning.
+    """
+    module = type(sys)("fastembed")
+    setattr(module, "TextEmbedding", _UnnormalizedTextEmbedding)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "fastembed", module)
+
+    provider = FastEmbedEmbeddingProvider(model_name="stub-multilingual", dimensions=4)
+    result = await provider.embed_documents(["some text"])
+
+    assert len(result) == 1
+    norm = math.sqrt(sum(x * x for x in result[0]))
+    assert abs(norm - 1.0) < 1e-6, f"Expected unit norm, got {norm}"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_fastembed_provider_zero_vector_does_not_raise(monkeypatch):
+    """A zero vector from the model must be returned as-is without a division error."""
+
+    class _ZeroEmbedding:
+        def __init__(self, model_name: str, **_kwargs):
+            pass
+
+        def embed(self, texts: list[str], **_kwargs):
+            for _ in texts:
+                yield _UnormalizedVector([0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0])
+
+    module = type(sys)("fastembed")
+    setattr(module, "TextEmbedding", _ZeroEmbedding)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "fastembed", module)
+
+    provider = FastEmbedEmbeddingProvider(model_name="stub-zero", dimensions=4)
+    result = await provider.embed_documents(["zero vector"])
+
+    assert result == [[0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]]