diff --git a/src/engine/parameters.h b/src/engine/parameters.h
index cee92c9e..f90835b8 100644
--- a/src/engine/parameters.h
+++ b/src/engine/parameters.h
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ struct ModelOutput {
 
   // logits for selected indices
   torch::Tensor logits;
+
+  // hidden states for selected indices
+  torch::Tensor hidden_states;
 };
 
 }  // namespace llm
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/engine/worker.cpp b/src/engine/worker.cpp
index 0961eb36..d33e59fa 100644
--- a/src/engine/worker.cpp
+++ b/src/engine/worker.cpp
@@ -161,6 +161,16 @@ ModelOutput Worker::execute_model(const ModelInput& inputs) {
     output.logprobs = sampling_params.logprobs;
     output.max_top_logprobs = sampling_params.max_top_logprobs;
   }
+
+  // if (inputs.pooling_params.selected_token_idxes.defined()) {
+  //   // call model to get embedding for each sequence
+  //   do pooling based on query sequence length
+  //   torch::Tensor selected_hidden_states = model_->pooling(
+  //       hidden_states, inputs.pooling_params.selected_token_idxes);
+
+  //   // set hidden states to output
+  //   output.hidden_states = selected_hidden_states;
+  // }
   return output;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/request/output.h b/src/request/output.h
index 29ac4e6f..52c25f2c 100644
--- a/src/request/output.h
+++ b/src/request/output.h
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ struct SequenceOutput {
 
   // log probabilities of the generated tokens.
   std::optional<std::vector<LogProb>> logprobs;
+
+  // the embeddings of the sequence, only used for embedding generation.
+  std::optional<std::vector<float>> embeddings;
 };
 
 struct RequestOutput {
diff --git a/src/request/sequence.cpp b/src/request/sequence.cpp
index bdc18077..9e7da064 100644
--- a/src/request/sequence.cpp
+++ b/src/request/sequence.cpp
@@ -210,6 +210,14 @@ std::optional<SequenceOutput> Sequence::build_delta_output_until(
 SequenceOutput Sequence::build_output(const Tokenizer& tokenizer) {
   AUTO_COUNTER(non_stream_decode_latency_seconds);
 
+  // return embeddings if available
+  if (this->embeddings_.has_value()) {
+    SequenceOutput output;
+    output.index = index_;
+    output.embeddings = std::move(this->embeddings_);
+    return output;
+  }
+
   const auto ids = token_ids();
   const size_t size = ids.size();
 
diff --git a/src/request/sequence.h b/src/request/sequence.h
index d3d9abb8..92bb5959 100644
--- a/src/request/sequence.h
+++ b/src/request/sequence.h
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ class Sequence final {
   void append_token(const Token& token);
   void append_token(int64_t token_id) { append_token(Token(token_id)); }
 
+  // set embeddings for the sequence
+  void set_embeddings(std::vector<float>&& embeddings) {
+    embeddings_ = std::move(embeddings);
+  }
+  
   // validate draft tokens with accepted tokens for speculative decoding
   // N.B. take int64_t as input to be compatible with torch::Tensor
   // returns the number of accepted tokens, including the resampled token
@@ -259,6 +264,9 @@ class Sequence final {
   std::vector<std::vector<int64_t>> top_tokens_;
   std::vector<std::vector<float>> top_logprobs_;
 
+  // sequence embeddings
+  std::optional<std::vector<float>> embeddings_;
+
   // number of tokens in the sequence
   size_t num_tokens_ = 0;