diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/subsampling.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/subsampling.py
index 51b08e072..c2da23adc 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/subsampling.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/subsampling.py
@@ -158,6 +158,12 @@ class VggSubsampling(nn.Module):
         self.out = nn.Linear(
             block_dims[-1] * (((idim - 1) // 2 - 1) // 2), odim
         )
+        self.out_norm = BasicNorm(odim, learn_eps=False)
+        # constrain median of output to be close to zero.
+        self.out_balancer = ActivationBalancer(channel_dim=-1,
+                                               min_positive=0.45,
+                                               max_positive=0.55)
+
 
     def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
         """Subsample x.
@@ -173,4 +179,6 @@ class VggSubsampling(nn.Module):
         x = self.layers(x)
         b, c, t, f = x.size()
         x = self.out(x.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(b, t, c * f))
+        x = self.out_norm(x)
+        x = self.out_balancer(x)
         return x