diff --git a/examples/embedding/embedding.cpp b/examples/embedding/embedding.cpp
index 9aede7fadfe31..536657526685c 100644
--- a/examples/embedding/embedding.cpp
+++ b/examples/embedding/embedding.cpp
@@ -178,25 +178,27 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     float * out = emb + p * n_embd;
     batch_decode(ctx, batch, out, s, n_embd);
 
-    // print the first part of the embeddings
+    // print the first part of the embeddings or for a single prompt, the full embedding
     fprintf(stdout, "\n");
     for (int j = 0; j < n_prompts; j++) {
         fprintf(stdout, "embedding %d: ", j);
-        for (int i = 0; i < std::min(16, n_embd); i++) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < (n_prompts > 1 ? std::min(16, n_embd) : n_embd); i++) {
             fprintf(stdout, "%9.6f ", emb[j * n_embd + i]);
         }
         fprintf(stdout, "\n");
     }
 
     // print cosine similarity matrix
-    fprintf(stdout, "\n");
-    printf("cosine similarity matrix:\n\n");
-    for (int i = 0; i < n_prompts; i++) {
-        for (int j = 0; j < n_prompts; j++) {
-            float sim = llama_embd_similarity_cos(emb + i * n_embd, emb + j * n_embd, n_embd);
-            fprintf(stdout, "%6.2f ", sim);
-        }
+    if (n_prompts > 1) {
         fprintf(stdout, "\n");
+        printf("cosine similarity matrix:\n\n");
+        for (int i = 0; i < n_prompts; i++) {
+            for (int j = 0; j < n_prompts; j++) {
+                float sim = llama_embd_similarity_cos(emb + i * n_embd, emb + j * n_embd, n_embd);
+                fprintf(stdout, "%6.2f ", sim);
+            }
+            fprintf(stdout, "\n");
+        }
     }
 
     // clean up