diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/deepseek_v2.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/deepseek_v2.py
index ab4f498b94fb..e62af24a8985 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/deepseek_v2.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/deepseek_v2.py
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ def __init__(
                 qk_rope_head_dim,
                 max_position=max_position_embeddings,
                 rope_parameters=config.rope_parameters,
-                is_neox_style=not getattr(config, "indexer_rope_interleave", True),
+                is_neox_style=not getattr(config, "indexer_rope_interleave", False),
             )
             self.indexer = Indexer(
                 vllm_config,