diff --git a/flair/embeddings/transformer.py b/flair/embeddings/transformer.py
index c43258a19..a27b57ab9 100644
--- a/flair/embeddings/transformer.py
+++ b/flair/embeddings/transformer.py
@@ -33,12 +33,7 @@
 
 import flair
 from flair.data import Sentence, Token, log
-from flair.embeddings.base import (
-    DocumentEmbeddings,
-    Embeddings,
-    TokenEmbeddings,
-    register_embeddings,
-)
+from flair.embeddings.base import DocumentEmbeddings, Embeddings, TokenEmbeddings, register_embeddings
 
 SENTENCE_BOUNDARY_TAG: str = "[FLERT]"
 
@@ -198,7 +193,12 @@ def fill_mean_token_embeddings(
 
 
 @torch.jit.script_if_tracing
-def document_mean_pooling(sentence_hidden_states: torch.Tensor, sentence_lengths: torch.Tensor):
+def document_cls_pooling(sentence_hidden_states: torch.Tensor, sentence_lengths: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return sentence_hidden_states[torch.arange(sentence_hidden_states.shape[0]), sentence_lengths - 1]
+
+
+@torch.jit.script_if_tracing
+def document_mean_pooling(sentence_hidden_states: torch.Tensor, sentence_lengths: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
     result = torch.zeros(
         sentence_hidden_states.shape[0], sentence_hidden_states.shape[2], dtype=sentence_hidden_states.dtype
     )
@@ -206,9 +206,11 @@ def document_mean_pooling(sentence_hidden_states: torch.Tensor, sentence_lengths
     for i in torch.arange(sentence_hidden_states.shape[0]):
         result[i] = sentence_hidden_states[i, : sentence_lengths[i]].mean(dim=0)
 
+    return result
+
 
 @torch.jit.script_if_tracing
-def document_max_pooling(sentence_hidden_states: torch.Tensor, sentence_lengths: torch.Tensor):
+def document_max_pooling(sentence_hidden_states: torch.Tensor, sentence_lengths: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
     result = torch.zeros(
         sentence_hidden_states.shape[0], sentence_hidden_states.shape[2], dtype=sentence_hidden_states.dtype
     )
@@ -216,6 +218,8 @@ def document_max_pooling(sentence_hidden_states: torch.Tensor, sentence_lengths:
     for i in torch.arange(sentence_hidden_states.shape[0]):
         result[i], _ = sentence_hidden_states[i, : sentence_lengths[i]].max(dim=0)
 
+    return result
+
 
 def _legacy_reconstruct_word_ids(
     embedding: "TransformerBaseEmbeddings", flair_tokens: list[list[str]]
@@ -1127,11 +1131,7 @@ def is_supported_t5_model(config: PretrainedConfig) -> bool:
         if peft_config is not None:
             # add adapters for finetuning
             try:
-                from peft import (
-                    TaskType,
-                    get_peft_model,
-                    prepare_model_for_kbit_training,
-                )
+                from peft import TaskType, get_peft_model, prepare_model_for_kbit_training
             except ImportError:
                 log.error("You cannot use the PEFT finetuning without peft being installed")
                 raise
@@ -1446,9 +1446,7 @@ def forward(
             else:
                 assert sub_token_lengths is not None
                 if self.cls_pooling == "cls":
-                    document_embeddings = sentence_hidden_states[
-                        torch.arange(sentence_hidden_states.shape[0]), sub_token_lengths - 1
-                    ]
+                    document_embeddings = document_cls_pooling(sentence_hidden_states, sub_token_lengths)
                 elif self.cls_pooling == "mean":
                     document_embeddings = document_mean_pooling(sentence_hidden_states, sub_token_lengths)
                 elif self.cls_pooling == "max":
diff --git a/tests/embeddings/test_transformer_document_embeddings.py b/tests/embeddings/test_transformer_document_embeddings.py
index 1a65a96fd..f0f6389b7 100644
--- a/tests/embeddings/test_transformer_document_embeddings.py
+++ b/tests/embeddings/test_transformer_document_embeddings.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-from flair.data import Dictionary
+import pytest
+
+from flair.data import Dictionary, Sentence
 from flair.embeddings import TransformerDocumentEmbeddings
 from flair.models import TextClassifier
 from flair.nn import Classifier
@@ -37,3 +39,16 @@ def test_if_loaded_embeddings_have_all_attributes(tasks_base_path):
     # check that context_length and use_context_separator is the same for both
     assert model.embeddings.context_length == loaded_single_task.embeddings.context_length
     assert model.embeddings.use_context_separator == loaded_single_task.embeddings.use_context_separator
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("cls_pooling", ["cls", "mean", "max"])
+def test_cls_pooling(cls_pooling):
+    embeddings = TransformerDocumentEmbeddings(
+        model="distilbert-base-uncased",
+        layers="-1",
+        cls_pooling=cls_pooling,
+        allow_long_sentences=True,
+    )
+    sentence = Sentence("Today is a good day.")
+    embeddings.embed(sentence)
+    assert sentence.embedding is not None