diff --git a/components/model/gemini/gemini.go b/components/model/gemini/gemini.go
index a1c87c05b..0abddc2cb 100644
--- a/components/model/gemini/gemini.go
+++ b/components/model/gemini/gemini.go
@@ -1179,6 +1179,7 @@ func convCandidate(candidate *genai.Candidate) (*schema.Message, error) {
 			outParts       []schema.MessageOutputPart
 			contentBuilder strings.Builder
 		)
+
 		// Process parts and extract thought signatures per Gemini docs:
 		// https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/thought-signatures
 		//
@@ -1186,9 +1187,21 @@ func convCandidate(candidate *genai.Candidate) (*schema.Message, error) {
 		// - functionCall parts: signature stored on ToolCall.Extra (required for Gemini 3 Pro)
 		// - output parts (text/inlineData/...): signature stored on MessageOutputPart.Extra
 		// - message.Extra is only used when output parts are absent
+
+		// There are rare cases that the response contains no thoughtSignature in the first part of parallel functionCall
+		firstFunctionCallIdx := -1
+		fallbackFunctionCallSig := []byte(nil)
 		for _, part := range candidate.Content.Parts {
+			if part.FunctionCall != nil && firstFunctionCallIdx < 0 {
+				firstFunctionCallIdx = len(result.ToolCalls)
+			}
+
 			// Store thought signature at message level for non-functionCall parts
 			if len(part.ThoughtSignature) > 0 && part.FunctionCall == nil {
+				// means that we have functionCall but without thoughtSignature
+				if firstFunctionCallIdx >= 0 && len(fallbackFunctionCallSig) == 0 {
+					fallbackFunctionCallSig = part.ThoughtSignature
+				}
 				setMessageThoughtSignature(result, part.ThoughtSignature)
 			}
 
@@ -1248,6 +1261,15 @@ func convCandidate(candidate *genai.Candidate) (*schema.Message, error) {
 				outParts = append(outParts, outPart)
 			}
 		}
+
+		// Gemini 3 streaming may place the step thought signature on a trailing empty
+		// non-function part instead of the first functionCall part.
+		if firstFunctionCallIdx >= 0 && len(fallbackFunctionCallSig) > 0 {
+			firstCall := &result.ToolCalls[firstFunctionCallIdx]
+			if len(getToolCallThoughtSignature(firstCall)) == 0 {
+				setToolCallThoughtSignature(firstCall, fallbackFunctionCallSig)
+			}
+		}
 		result.Content = contentBuilder.String()
 		if len(texts) > 1 {
 			for _, text := range texts {
diff --git a/components/model/gemini/gemini_test.go b/components/model/gemini/gemini_test.go
index 741b7dba4..46eb6fcae 100644
--- a/components/model/gemini/gemini_test.go
+++ b/components/model/gemini/gemini_test.go
@@ -927,6 +927,49 @@ func TestThoughtSignatureRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.NoError(t, err)
 		assert.Equal(t, sigB, content2.Parts[0].ThoughtSignature)
 	})
+
+	t.Run("convCandidate moves trailing step signature onto first function call", func(t *testing.T) {
+		signature := []byte("trailing_function_step_signature")
+
+		candidate := &genai.Candidate{
+			Content: &genai.Content{
+				Role: roleModel,
+				Parts: []*genai.Part{
+					{
+						Text:    "thinking before tool",
+						Thought: true,
+					},
+					{
+						FunctionCall: &genai.FunctionCall{
+							Name: "fc",
+							Args: map[string]any{},
+						},
+					},
+					{
+						Text:             "",
+						ThoughtSignature: signature,
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		}
+
+		message, err := convCandidate(candidate)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.NotNil(t, message)
+		if assert.Len(t, message.ToolCalls, 1) {
+			sig, ok := GetThoughtSignatureFromExtra(message.ToolCalls[0].Extra)
+			assert.True(t, ok)
+			assert.Equal(t, signature, sig)
+		}
+
+		content, err := convSchemaMessage(message)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		if assert.Len(t, content.Parts, 2) {
+			assert.True(t, content.Parts[0].Thought)
+			assert.NotNil(t, content.Parts[1].FunctionCall)
+			assert.Equal(t, signature, content.Parts[1].ThoughtSignature)
+		}
+	})
 }
 
 func TestCreatePrefixCache(t *testing.T) {