diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 19c2c624712..26674483f7a 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ def __init__(
         dtype: str = "auto",
         *,
         model_kwargs: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None,
+        trust_remote_code: bool = True,
         is_sentence_transformer: bool = False,
         is_cross_encoder: bool = False,
         skip_tokenizer_init: bool = False,
@@ -320,7 +321,7 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
             model_name,
-            trust_remote_code=True,
+            trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
         )
         self.device = self.get_default_device()
         self.dtype = torch_dtype = _get_and_verify_dtype(self.config, dtype)
@@ -336,7 +337,7 @@ def __init__(
                 model_name,
                 device=self.device,
                 model_kwargs=model_kwargs,
-                trust_remote_code=True,
+                trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
             )
         elif is_cross_encoder:
             # Lazy init required for AMD CI
@@ -346,12 +347,12 @@ def __init__(
                 model_name,
                 device=self.device,
                 automodel_args=model_kwargs,
-                trust_remote_code=True,
+                trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
             )
         else:
             model = auto_cls.from_pretrained(
                 model_name,
-                trust_remote_code=True,
+                trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
                 **model_kwargs,
             )
 
@@ -372,7 +373,7 @@ def __init__(
             self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
                 model_name,
                 torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
-                trust_remote_code=True,
+                trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
             )
 
         # don't put this import at the top level
@@ -381,7 +382,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
             model_name,
             torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
-            trust_remote_code=True,
+            trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
         )
         if skip_tokenizer_init:
             self.tokenizer = self.processor.tokenizer
diff --git a/tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py
index a44b2154b13..306cfdf3770 100644
--- a/tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py
+++ b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py
@@ -10,18 +10,22 @@
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "model",
     [
-        # [Encoder-only]
-        pytest.param("BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5",
-                     marks=[pytest.mark.core_model, pytest.mark.cpu_model]),
-        pytest.param("sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v2"),
-        pytest.param("intfloat/multilingual-e5-small"),
-        pytest.param("Alibaba-NLP/gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct"),
+        # Be careful of the order of models, decoder-only models should be
+        # placed before encoder-only models, otherwise `Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct`
+        # case won't pass because gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct will cache custom
+        # model code with bidirectional attention.
         # [Decoder-only]
         pytest.param("BAAI/bge-multilingual-gemma2",
                      marks=[pytest.mark.core_model]),
         pytest.param("intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct",
                      marks=[pytest.mark.core_model, pytest.mark.cpu_model]),
         pytest.param("ssmits/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-embed-base"),
+        # [Encoder-only]
+        pytest.param("BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5",
+                     marks=[pytest.mark.core_model, pytest.mark.cpu_model]),
+        pytest.param("sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v2"),
+        pytest.param("intfloat/multilingual-e5-small"),
+        pytest.param("Alibaba-NLP/gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct"),
         # [Cross-Encoder]
         pytest.param("sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-base-v2"),
     ],
@@ -44,7 +48,7 @@ def test_models(
     vllm_extra_kwargs = {}
     if model == "ssmits/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-embed-base":
         vllm_extra_kwargs["override_pooler_config"] = \
-            PoolerConfig(pooling_type="MEAN")
+            PoolerConfig(pooling_type="MEAN", normalize=False)
 
     # The example_prompts has ending "\n", for example:
     # "Write a short story about a robot that dreams for the first time.\n"
diff --git a/tests/models/language/pooling/test_gte.py b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_gte.py
index 18b27a68814..725e3d16840 100644
--- a/tests/models/language/pooling/test_gte.py
+++ b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_gte.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
     ########### Qwen2ForCausalLM
     EmbedModelInfo("Alibaba-NLP/gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct",
                    architecture="Qwen2ForCausalLM",
+                   dtype="float32",
                    enable_test=True),
     ########## ModernBertModel
     EmbedModelInfo("Alibaba-NLP/gte-modernbert-base",
diff --git a/tests/models/utils.py b/tests/models/utils.py
index ac1fc6c8f0e..ffc904bd10f 100644
--- a/tests/models/utils.py
+++ b/tests/models/utils.py
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ def check_embeddings_close(
                                   dim=0)
 
         fail_msg = (f"Test{prompt_idx}:"
+                    f"\nCosine similarity: \t{sim:.4f}"
                     f"\n{name_0}:\t{embeddings_0[:16]!r}"
                     f"\n{name_1}:\t{embeddings_1[:16]!r}")