diff --git a/application/vectorstore/faiss.py b/application/vectorstore/faiss.py
index 856eaee..08502c5 100644
--- a/application/vectorstore/faiss.py
+++ b/application/vectorstore/faiss.py
@@ -2,31 +2,21 @@ from application.vectorstore.base import BaseVectorStore
 from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS
 from application.core.settings import settings
 
-HUGGINGFACE_MODEL_NAME = "huggingface_sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2"
 class FaissStore(BaseVectorStore):
 
     def __init__(self, path, embeddings_key, docs_init=None):
         super().__init__()
         self.path = path
+        embeddings = self._get_embeddings(settings.EMBEDDINGS_NAME, embeddings_key)
         if docs_init:
             self.docsearch = FAISS.from_documents(
-                docs_init, self._get_embeddings(settings.EMBEDDINGS_NAME, embeddings_key)
+                docs_init, embeddings 
             )
         else:
-            embeddings = self._get_embeddings(settings.EMBEDDINGS_NAME, embeddings_key)
             self.docsearch = FAISS.load_local(
                 self.path, embeddings
             )
-            
-            # Check that the word_embedding_dimension of the index matches 
-            # the word_embedding_dimension of the embeddings
-            if settings.EMBEDDINGS_NAME == HUGGINGFACE_MODEL_NAME:
-                try:
-                    word_embedding_dimension = embeddings.client[1].word_embedding_dimension
-                except AttributeError as e:
-                    raise AttributeError("word_embedding_dimension not found in embeddings.client[1]") from e
-                if word_embedding_dimension != self.docsearch.index.d:
-                    raise ValueError("word_embedding_dimension != docsearch_index_word_embedding_dimension")
+        self.assert_embedding_dimensions(embeddings)
 
     def search(self, *args, **kwargs):
         return self.docsearch.similarity_search(*args, **kwargs)
@@ -36,3 +26,19 @@ class FaissStore(BaseVectorStore):
     
     def save_local(self, *args, **kwargs):
         return self.docsearch.save_local(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def assert_embedding_dimensions(self, embeddings, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Check that the word embedding dimension of the docsearch index matches
+        the dimension of the word embeddings used 
+        """
+        if settings.EMBEDDINGS_NAME == "huggingface_sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2":
+            try:
+                word_embedding_dimension = embeddings.client[1].word_embedding_dimension
+            except AttributeError as e:
+                raise AttributeError("word_embedding_dimension not found in embeddings.client[1]") from e
+            docsearch_index_dimension = self.docsearch.index.d
+            if word_embedding_dimension != docsearch_index_dimension:
+                raise ValueError(f"word_embedding_dimension ({word_embedding_dimension}) " +
+                                 f"!= docsearch_index_word_embedding_dimension ({docsearch_index_dimension})")
+