diff --git a/run.c b/run.c
index 2f29f35..22f3fa5 100644
--- a/run.c
+++ b/run.c
@@ -232,24 +232,18 @@ void transformer(int token, int pos, Config* p, RunState* s, TransformerWeights*
         matmul(s->k, s->xb, w->wk + l*dim*dim, dim, dim);
         matmul(s->v, s->xb, w->wv + l*dim*dim, dim, dim);
 
-        // apply RoPE rotation to the q and k vectors for each head
-        for (int h = 0; h < p->n_heads; h++) {
-            // get the q and k vectors for this head
-            float* q = s->q + h * head_size;
-            float* k = s->k + h * head_size;
-            // rotate q and k by the freq_cis_real and freq_cis_imag
-            for (int i = 0; i < head_size; i+=2) {
-                float q0 = q[i];
-                float q1 = q[i+1];
-                float k0 = k[i];
-                float k1 = k[i+1];
-                float fcr = freq_cis_real_row[i/2];
-                float fci = freq_cis_imag_row[i/2];
-                q[i]   = q0 * fcr - q1 * fci;
-                q[i+1] = q0 * fci + q1 * fcr;
-                k[i]   = k0 * fcr - k1 * fci;
-                k[i+1] = k0 * fci + k1 * fcr;
-            }
+        // RoPE relative positional encoding: complex-valued rotate q and k by freq_cis in each head
+        for (int i = 0; i < dim; i+=2) {
+            float q0 = s->q[i];
+            float q1 = s->q[i+1];
+            float k0 = s->k[i];
+            float k1 = s->k[i+1];
+            float fcr = freq_cis_real_row[(i % head_size) / 2];
+            float fci = freq_cis_imag_row[(i % head_size) / 2];
+            s->q[i]   = q0 * fcr - q1 * fci;
+            s->q[i+1] = q0 * fci + q1 * fcr;
+            s->k[i]   = k0 * fcr - k1 * fci;
+            s->k[i+1] = k0 * fci + k1 * fcr;
         }
 
         // save key,value at this time step (pos) to our kv cache