diff --git a/jobs/process/BaseSDTrainProcess.py b/jobs/process/BaseSDTrainProcess.py
index 91f62a5a..d0663e91 100644
--- a/jobs/process/BaseSDTrainProcess.py
+++ b/jobs/process/BaseSDTrainProcess.py
@@ -1336,6 +1336,14 @@ class BaseSDTrainProcess(BaseTrainProcess):
                     latent_multiplier = normalizer
 
                 latents = latents * latent_multiplier
+                
+                if self.train_config.do_blank_stabilization:
+                    # zero out latents with blank prompts
+                    blank_latent = torch.zeros_like(latents)
+                    for i, prompt in enumerate(conditioned_prompts):
+                        if prompt.strip() == '':
+                            latents[i] = blank_latent[i]
+                
                 batch.latents = latents
 
                 # normalize latents to a mean of 0 and an std of 1
diff --git a/toolkit/config_modules.py b/toolkit/config_modules.py
index 974e0cb6..d93f471b 100644
--- a/toolkit/config_modules.py
+++ b/toolkit/config_modules.py
@@ -559,6 +559,9 @@ class TrainConfig:
         # for multi stage models, how often to switch the boundary
         self.switch_boundary_every: int = kwargs.get('switch_boundary_every', 1)
 
+        # stabilizes empty prompts to be zeroed predictions
+        self.do_blank_stabilization = kwargs.get('do_blank_stabilization', False)
+
 
 ModelArch = Literal['sd1', 'sd2', 'sd3', 'sdxl', 'pixart', 'pixart_sigma', 'auraflow', 'flux', 'flex1', 'flex2', 'lumina2', 'vega', 'ssd', 'wan21']