diff --git a/src/axolotl/integrations/kd/chat_template.py b/src/axolotl/integrations/kd/chat_template.py
index cc70e12d2..bf2de93d6 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/integrations/kd/chat_template.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/integrations/kd/chat_template.py
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategyWithKD(ChatTemplateStrategy):
         if input_padding_len < 0:
             # logprobs is longer than target_seq_len,
             # so we need to slice from the left/beginning of logprobs
-            logprobs = logprobs[:-input_seq_len]
+            # and truncate the second dimension of the logprobs to top_k
+            logprobs = logprobs[:-input_seq_len, :top_k]
             input_padding_len = 0
             # target_seq_len = input_seq_len