diff --git a/common/speculative.cpp b/common/speculative.cpp
index ee94d7c376..3a6c073683 100644
--- a/common/speculative.cpp
+++ b/common/speculative.cpp
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ struct common_speculative_impl_draft_eagle3 : public common_speculative_impl {
     int32_t n_embd_dec = 0;       // draft hidden size
     int32_t n_embd_enc = 0;       // target_layer_ids_n * target_hidden_size
     int32_t n_embd_tgt = 0;       // target model hidden size
+    int32_t n_layer_tgt = 0;      // target model layer count
 
     const int32_t * target_layer_ids   = nullptr; // model_dft's extract layer indices
     uint32_t        target_layer_ids_n = 0;
@@ -478,6 +479,7 @@ struct common_speculative_impl_draft_eagle3 : public common_speculative_impl {
         n_embd_tgt = llama_model_n_embd(model_tgt);
         n_embd_dec = llama_model_n_embd(model_dft);
         n_embd_enc = (int32_t) target_layer_ids_n * n_embd_tgt;
+        n_layer_tgt = llama_model_n_layer(model_tgt);
 
         const int32_t n_b = (int32_t) llama_n_batch(ctx_dft);
         batch = llama_batch_init(/*n_tokens=*/ n_b, /*embd=*/ n_embd_dec, /*n_seq_max=*/ 1);
@@ -510,9 +512,15 @@ struct common_speculative_impl_draft_eagle3 : public common_speculative_impl {
             }
         }
 
-        // turn on extraction of the target layers' input embeddings
+        // turn on extraction of the target layers' hidden states
         for (uint32_t k = 0; k < target_layer_ids_n; ++k) {
-            llama_set_embeddings_layer_inp(ctx_tgt, (uint32_t) target_layer_ids[k], true);
+            if (target_layer_ids[k] < n_layer_tgt) {
+                llama_set_embeddings_layer_inp(ctx_tgt, (uint32_t) target_layer_ids[k], true);
+            } else if (target_layer_ids[k] == n_layer_tgt) {
+                llama_set_embeddings_nextn(ctx_tgt, true, /*masked*/ false);
+            } else {
+                GGML_ABORT("EAGLE3: target layer id %d exceeds target n_layer %d", target_layer_ids[k], n_layer_tgt);
+            }
         }
 
         // turn on extraction of the draft model's pre-norm hidden state
@@ -600,7 +608,9 @@ struct common_speculative_impl_draft_eagle3 : public common_speculative_impl {
         features_buf.resize((size_t) n_tokens * n_embd_enc, 0.0f);
 
         for (uint32_t k = 0; k < target_layer_ids_n; ++k) {
-            const float * layer = llama_get_embeddings_layer_inp(ctx_tgt, (uint32_t) target_layer_ids[k]);
+            const float * layer = target_layer_ids[k] < n_layer_tgt
+                ? llama_get_embeddings_layer_inp(ctx_tgt, (uint32_t) target_layer_ids[k])
+                : llama_get_embeddings_nextn(ctx_tgt);
             if (!layer) {
                 GGML_ABORT("EAGLE3: target layer %d input not extracted.", target_layer_ids[k]);
             }
diff --git a/conversion/llama.py b/conversion/llama.py
index 315a619c9c..9b3373f911 100644
--- a/conversion/llama.py
+++ b/conversion/llama.py
@@ -69,9 +69,14 @@ class LlamaModel(TextModel):
                 target_config = {**target_config, **target_config["text_config"]}
             self.target_vocab_size = target_config["vocab_size"]
 
-            # target_layers: derived from target model layer count (low/mid/high)
+            # target_layers: use the eagle3 config's explicit aux hidden-state layer ids
+            # if present, else derive from the target layer count.
             target_num_layers = target_config["num_hidden_layers"]
-            target_layers = [2, target_num_layers // 2, target_num_layers - 3]
+            aux_layer_ids = eagle3_raw_config.get("eagle_aux_hidden_state_layer_ids")
+            if aux_layer_ids:
+                target_layers = aux_layer_ids
+            else:
+                target_layers = [2, target_num_layers // 2, target_num_layers - 3]
             logger.info(f"EAGLE-3: target_layers = {target_layers} (target model has {target_num_layers} layers)")
             self.gguf_writer.add_target_layers(target_layers)
 
@@ -90,6 +95,12 @@ class LlamaModel(TextModel):
             logger.info(f"EAGLE-3: norm_before_residual = {norm_before_residual}")
             self.gguf_writer.add_norm_before_residual(norm_before_residual)
 
+            # norm_before_fc: RMSNorm applied to the fused target features before the
+            # fc projection (e.g. nvidia/gpt-oss-120b-Eagle3-v3)
+            norm_before_fc = eagle3_raw_config.get("norm_before_fc", False)
+            logger.info(f"EAGLE-3: norm_before_fc = {norm_before_fc}")
+            self.gguf_writer.add_norm_before_fc(norm_before_fc)
+
     def set_vocab(self):
         # eagle3: use tokenizer from target model if provided
         original_dir_model = None
@@ -222,6 +233,9 @@ class LlamaModel(TextModel):
             if name == "fc.weight":
                 yield (name, data_torch)
                 return
+            if name == "input_norm.weight":
+                yield (self.format_tensor_name(gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.ENC_OUTPUT_NORM), data_torch)
+                return
             if name == "d2t":
                 # store for manual int64 handling in prepare_tensors (avoid F32 conversion)
                 if not hasattr(self, '_eagle3_int_tensors'):
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
index f9264425f6..4df94b9a3a 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ class Keys:
         TARGET_HIDDEN_SIZE                = "{arch}.target_hidden_size"
         BLOCK_SIZE                        = "{arch}.block_size"
         NORM_BEFORE_RESIDUAL              = "{arch}.norm_before_residual"
+        NORM_BEFORE_FC                    = "{arch}.norm_before_fc"
 
     class Attention:
         HEAD_COUNT                   = "{arch}.attention.head_count"
@@ -4343,6 +4344,7 @@ MODEL_TENSORS: dict[MODEL_ARCH, list[MODEL_TENSOR]] = {
         MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN,
         MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP,
         MODEL_TENSOR.FC,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ENC_OUTPUT_NORM,
         MODEL_TENSOR.D2T,
     ],
     MODEL_ARCH.DFLASH: [
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
index bd8629aa11..657ed69b68 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
@@ -971,6 +971,9 @@ class GGUFWriter:
     def add_norm_before_residual(self, value: bool) -> None:
         self.add_bool(Keys.LLM.NORM_BEFORE_RESIDUAL.format(arch=self.arch), value)
 
+    def add_norm_before_fc(self, value: bool) -> None:
+        self.add_bool(Keys.LLM.NORM_BEFORE_FC.format(arch=self.arch), value)
+
     def add_attention_output_group_count(self, count: int) -> None:
         self.add_uint32(Keys.Attention.OUTPUT_GROUP_COUNT.format(arch=self.arch), count)
 
diff --git a/src/llama-arch.cpp b/src/llama-arch.cpp
index c017067850..a0945e501d 100644
--- a/src/llama-arch.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-arch.cpp
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ static const std::map<llm_kv, const char *> LLM_KV_NAMES = {
     { LLM_KV_TARGET_LAYERS,         "%s.target_layers"        },
     { LLM_KV_TARGET_HIDDEN_SIZE,    "%s.target_hidden_size"   },
     { LLM_KV_NORM_BEFORE_RESIDUAL,  "%s.norm_before_residual" },
+    { LLM_KV_NORM_BEFORE_FC,        "%s.norm_before_fc"       },
 
     { LLM_KV_SHORTCONV_L_CACHE, "%s.shortconv.l_cache" },
     // sentence-transformers dense modules feature dims
diff --git a/src/llama-arch.h b/src/llama-arch.h
index 1c9aebb0bb..fb5eb3920b 100644
--- a/src/llama-arch.h
+++ b/src/llama-arch.h
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ enum llm_kv {
     LLM_KV_TARGET_LAYERS,
     LLM_KV_TARGET_HIDDEN_SIZE,
     LLM_KV_NORM_BEFORE_RESIDUAL,
+    LLM_KV_NORM_BEFORE_FC,
 
     LLM_KV_SHORTCONV_L_CACHE,
 
diff --git a/src/llama-hparams.h b/src/llama-hparams.h
index 727df6ca21..fc770bf003 100644
--- a/src/llama-hparams.h
+++ b/src/llama-hparams.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct llama_hparams {
     bool use_par_res;
     bool swin_norm;
     bool norm_before_residual = false;
+    bool norm_before_fc       = false;
 
     uint32_t n_ctx_train; // context size the model was trained on
     uint32_t n_embd;
diff --git a/src/models/eagle3.cpp b/src/models/eagle3.cpp
index 9d96fae594..be466056df 100644
--- a/src/models/eagle3.cpp
+++ b/src/models/eagle3.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ void llama_model_eagle3::load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) {
         LLAMA_LOG_INFO("%s: EAGLE3gnorm_before_residual = true\n", __func__);
     }
 
+    // eagle3 norm_before_fc (optional, default false)
+    // compatible with eagle3.1 (e.g. nvidia/gpt-oss-120b-Eagle3-v3)
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_NORM_BEFORE_FC, hparams.norm_before_fc, false);
+
     type = LLM_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
 }
 
@@ -53,6 +57,11 @@ void llama_model_eagle3::load_arch_tensors(llama_model_loader &) {
     // Feature fusion layer: projects 3 target layers to draft hidden size
     fc = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FC, "weight"), {n_embd_inp, n_embd}, 0);
 
+    // RMSNorm on the fused target features (input to fc), only when norm_before_fc is set.
+    if (hparams.norm_before_fc) {
+        output_norm_enc = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ENC_OUTPUT_NORM, "weight"), {n_embd_inp}, 0);
+    }
+
     // Output layer (uses draft vocab size)
     output_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT_NORM, "weight"), {n_embd}, 0);
     output      = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT,      "weight"), {n_embd, n_draft_vocab}, TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED);
@@ -130,6 +139,12 @@ llama_model_eagle3::graph<true>::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_grap
 
     cur = build_inp_embd_enc();
 
+    // RMSNorm on the fused target features before fc
+    if (hparams.norm_before_fc) {
+        cur = build_norm(cur, model.output_norm_enc, NULL, LLM_NORM_RMS, -1);
+        cb(cur, "enc_input_norm", -1);
+    }
+
     // Feature fusion layer
     cur = build_lora_mm(model.fc, cur);
     cb(cur, "fc_out", -1);
diff --git a/src/models/openai-moe.cpp b/src/models/openai-moe.cpp
index 6d74f9c7e6..c91bae1c35 100644
--- a/src/models/openai-moe.cpp
+++ b/src/models/openai-moe.cpp
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ llama_model_openai_moe::graph::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_
 
             cb(cur, "attn_out", il);
         }
-        if (il == n_layer - 1) {
+        if (il == n_layer - 1 && inp_out_ids && cparams.embeddings_nextn_masked) {
             // skip computing output for unused tokens
             cur   = ggml_get_rows(ctx0,   cur, inp_out_ids);
             inpSA = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, inpSA, inp_out_ids);
@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ llama_model_openai_moe::graph::graph(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_
     }
     cur = inpL;
 
+    res->t_h_nextn = cur;
+
+    if (!cparams.embeddings_nextn_masked && inp_out_ids) {
+        cur = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, cur, inp_out_ids);
+    }
+
     cur = build_norm(cur,
             model.output_norm, NULL,
             LLM_NORM_RMS, -1);