diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index a566d92328..186ffd15cd 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Graphs = "1.4"
 HybridArrays = "0.4"
 Kronecker = "0.4, 0.5"
 ManifoldDiff = "0.3.6"
-ManifoldsBase = "0.14.11"
+ManifoldsBase = "0.14.12"
 MatrixEquations = "2.2"
 OrdinaryDiffEq = "6.31"
 Plots = "1"
diff --git a/src/manifolds/PositiveNumbers.jl b/src/manifolds/PositiveNumbers.jl
index da9ceadc73..780d9f2c4f 100644
--- a/src/manifolds/PositiveNumbers.jl
+++ b/src/manifolds/PositiveNumbers.jl
@@ -294,6 +294,25 @@ function parallel_transport_to!(::PositiveNumbers, Y, p, X, q)
     return (Y .= X .* q ./ p)
 end
 
+function Random.rand(M::PositiveNumbers; kwargs...)
+    return rand(Random.default_rng(), M; kwargs...)
+end
+
+function Random.rand(
+    rng::AbstractRNG,
+    ::PositiveNumbers;
+    σ=1.0,
+    vector_at=nothing,
+)
+    if vector_at === nothing
+        return exp(randn(rng) * σ)
+    else
+        return vector_at * randn(rng) * σ
+    end
+    return pX
+end
+
+
 function Random.rand!(
     rng::AbstractRNG,
     ::PositiveNumbers,