diff --git a/sae_lens/cache_activations_runner.py b/sae_lens/cache_activations_runner.py
index 6c41455b4..9c464b4db 100644
--- a/sae_lens/cache_activations_runner.py
+++ b/sae_lens/cache_activations_runner.py
@@ -11,11 +11,10 @@
 from datasets.fingerprint import generate_fingerprint
 from huggingface_hub import HfApi
 from jaxtyping import Float
-from tqdm import tqdm
-
 from sae_lens.config import DTYPE_MAP, CacheActivationsRunnerConfig
 from sae_lens.load_model import load_model
 from sae_lens.training.activations_store import ActivationsStore
+from tqdm import tqdm
 
 
 class CacheActivationsRunner:
@@ -273,10 +272,20 @@ def run(self) -> Dataset:
             meta_io.seek(0)
 
             api = HfApi()
+
+            # Tacks on username to the repo id
+            user_repo_id = api.create_repo(
+                self.cfg.hf_repo_id,
+                private=self.cfg.hf_is_private_repo,
+                repo_type="dataset",
+                exist_ok=True,  # should exist already
+            ).repo_id
+
             api.upload_file(
                 path_or_fileobj=meta_io,
                 path_in_repo="cache_activations_runner_cfg.json",
-                repo_id=self.cfg.hf_repo_id,
+                repo_id=user_repo_id,
+                revision=self.cfg.hf_revision,
                 repo_type="dataset",
                 commit_message="Add cache_activations_runner metadata",
             )