diff --git a/libs/vertexai/langchain_google_vertexai/gemma.py b/libs/vertexai/langchain_google_vertexai/gemma.py
index c24cb0b12..ee04922c4 100644
--- a/libs/vertexai/langchain_google_vertexai/gemma.py
+++ b/libs/vertexai/langchain_google_vertexai/gemma.py
@@ -53,6 +53,21 @@ def gemma_messages_to_prompt(history: List[BaseMessage]) -> str:
     return "".join(messages)
 
 
+def _parse_gemma_chat_response(response: str) -> str:
+    """Removes chat history from the response."""
+    pattern = "<start_of_turn>model\n"
+    pos = response.rfind(pattern)
+    if pos == -1:
+        return response
+    else:
+        text = response[(pos + len(pattern)) :]
+        pos = text.find("<start_of_turn>user\n")
+        if pos > 0:
+            return text[:pos]
+        else:
+            return text
+
+
 class _GemmaBase(BaseModel):
     max_tokens: Optional[int] = None
     """The maximum number of tokens to generate."""
@@ -98,6 +113,9 @@ class GemmaChatVertexAIModelGarden(_GemmaBase, _BaseVertexAIModelGarden, BaseCha
         "top_k",
         "max_tokens",
     ]
+    parse_response: bool = False
+    """Whether to post-process the chat response and clean repeations """
+    """or multi-turn statements."""
 
     @property
     def _llm_type(self) -> str:
@@ -120,6 +138,8 @@ def _generate(
         request["prompt"] = gemma_messages_to_prompt(messages)
         output = self.client.predict(endpoint=self.endpoint_path, instances=[request])
         text = output.predictions[0]
+        if self.parse_response or kwargs.get("parse_response"):
+            text = _parse_gemma_chat_response(text)
         if stop:
             text = enforce_stop_tokens(text, stop)
         generations = [
@@ -142,7 +162,9 @@ async def _agenerate(
         output = await self.async_client.predict(
             endpoint=self.endpoint_path, instances=[request]
         )
-        text = output.predictions[0]
+        text = _parse_gemma_chat_response(text)
+        if self.parse_response or kwargs.get("parse_response"):
+            text = _parse_gemma_chat_response(text)
         if stop:
             text = enforce_stop_tokens(text, stop)
         generations = [
@@ -183,6 +205,11 @@ def _default_params(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         params = {"max_length": self.max_tokens}
         return {k: v for k, v in params.items() if v is not None}
 
+    def _get_params(self, **kwargs) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        mapping = {"max_tokens": "max_length"}
+        params = {mapping[k]: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if k in mapping}
+        return {**self._default_params, **params}
+
 
 class GemmaLocalKaggle(_GemmaLocalKaggleBase, BaseLLM):
     """Local gemma chat model loaded from Kaggle."""
@@ -195,7 +222,7 @@ def _generate(
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> LLMResult:
         """Run the LLM on the given prompt and input."""
-        params = {"max_length": self.max_tokens} if self.max_tokens else {}
+        params = self._get_params(**kwargs)
         results = self.client.generate(prompts, **params)
         results = [results] if isinstance(results, str) else results
         if stop:
@@ -209,6 +236,10 @@ def _llm_type(self) -> str:
 
 
 class GemmaChatLocalKaggle(_GemmaLocalKaggleBase, BaseChatModel):
+    parse_response: bool = False
+    """Whether to post-process the chat response and clean repeations """
+    """or multi-turn statements."""
+
     def _generate(
         self,
         messages: List[BaseMessage],
@@ -216,9 +247,11 @@ def _generate(
         run_manager: Optional[CallbackManagerForLLMRun] = None,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> ChatResult:
-        params = {"max_length": self.max_tokens} if self.max_tokens else {}
+        params = self._get_params(**kwargs)
         prompt = gemma_messages_to_prompt(messages)
         text = self.client.generate(prompt, **params)
+        if self.parse_response or kwargs.get("parse_response"):
+            text = _parse_gemma_chat_response(text)
         if stop:
             text = enforce_stop_tokens(text, stop)
         generation = ChatGeneration(message=AIMessage(content=text))
@@ -268,9 +301,15 @@ def _default_params(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         params = {"max_length": self.max_tokens}
         return {k: v for k, v in params.items() if v is not None}
 
+    def _get_params(self, **kwargs) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        mapping = {"max_tokens": "max_length"}
+        params = {mapping[k]: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if k in mapping}
+        return {**self._default_params, **params}
+
     def _run(self, prompt: str, **kwargs: Any) -> str:
         inputs = self.tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
-        generate_ids = self.client.generate(inputs.input_ids, **kwargs)
+        params = self._get_params(**kwargs)
+        generate_ids = self.client.generate(inputs.input_ids, **params)
         return self.tokenizer.batch_decode(
             generate_ids, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False
         )[0]
@@ -287,8 +326,7 @@ def _generate(
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> LLMResult:
         """Run the LLM on the given prompt and input."""
-        params = {"max_length": self.max_tokens} if self.max_tokens else {}
-        results = [self._run(prompt, **params) for prompt in prompts]
+        results = [self._run(prompt, **kwargs) for prompt in prompts]
         if stop:
             results = [enforce_stop_tokens(text, stop) for text in results]
         return LLMResult(generations=[[Generation(text=text)] for text in results])
@@ -300,7 +338,9 @@ def _llm_type(self) -> str:
 
 
 class GemmaChatLocalHF(_GemmaLocalHFBase, BaseChatModel):
-    """Local gemma chat model loaded from HuggingFace."""
+    parse_response: bool = False
+    """Whether to post-process the chat response and clean repeations """
+    """or multi-turn statements."""
 
     def _generate(
         self,
@@ -309,9 +349,10 @@ def _generate(
         run_manager: Optional[CallbackManagerForLLMRun] = None,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> ChatResult:
-        params = {"max_length": self.max_tokens} if self.max_tokens else {}
         prompt = gemma_messages_to_prompt(messages)
-        text = self._run(prompt, **params)
+        text = self._run(prompt, **kwargs)
+        if self.parse_response or kwargs.get("parse_response"):
+            text = _parse_gemma_chat_response(text)
         if stop:
             text = enforce_stop_tokens(text, stop)
         generation = ChatGeneration(message=AIMessage(content=text))