diff --git a/examples/decomposition/plot_kernel_pca.py b/examples/decomposition/plot_kernel_pca.py
index c6985d2765f8c5c4875b6d26d84bd98214192c7e..202786302b3bab6e60b50c50fea7575849476971 100644
--- a/examples/decomposition/plot_kernel_pca.py
+++ b/examples/decomposition/plot_kernel_pca.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ np.random.seed(0)
 
 X, y = make_circles(n_samples=400, factor=.3, noise=.05)
 
-kpca = KernelPCA(kernel="rbf", fit_inverse_transform=True, gamma=.5)
+kpca = KernelPCA(kernel="rbf", fit_inverse_transform=True, gamma=10)
 X_kpca = kpca.fit_transform(X)
 X_back = kpca.inverse_transform(X_kpca)
 pca = PCA()