diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py b/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
index c9cf125..1f2079b 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
@@ -807,6 +807,7 @@ class DiffusionPrior(BaseGaussianDiffusion):
         condition_on_text_encodings = True, # the paper suggests this is needed, but you can turn it off for your CLIP preprocessed text embed -> image embed training
         sampling_clamp_l2norm = False,
         training_clamp_l2norm = False,
+        init_image_embed_l2norm = False,
         image_embed_scale = None,           # this is for scaling the l2-normed image embedding, so it is more suitable for gaussian diffusion, as outlined by Katherine (@crowsonkb) https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch/issues/60#issue-1226116132
         clip_adapter_overrides = dict()
     ):
@@ -845,6 +846,7 @@ class DiffusionPrior(BaseGaussianDiffusion):
         # whether to force an l2norm, similar to clipping denoised, when sampling
         self.sampling_clamp_l2norm = sampling_clamp_l2norm
         self.training_clamp_l2norm = training_clamp_l2norm
+        self.init_image_embed_l2norm = init_image_embed_l2norm
 
     def p_mean_variance(self, x, t, text_cond, clip_denoised: bool):
         pred = self.net(x, t, **text_cond)
@@ -879,11 +881,16 @@ class DiffusionPrior(BaseGaussianDiffusion):
         device = self.betas.device
 
         b = shape[0]
-        img = torch.randn(shape, device=device)
+        image_embed = torch.randn(shape, device=device)
+
+        if self.init_image_embed_l2norm:
+            image_embed = l2norm(image_embed) * self.image_embed_scale
 
         for i in tqdm(reversed(range(0, self.num_timesteps)), desc='sampling loop time step', total=self.num_timesteps):
-            img = self.p_sample(img, torch.full((b,), i, device = device, dtype = torch.long), text_cond = text_cond)
-        return img
+            times = torch.full((b,), i, device = device, dtype = torch.long)
+            image_embed = self.p_sample(image_embed, times, text_cond = text_cond)
+
+        return image_embed
 
     def p_losses(self, image_embed, times, text_cond, noise = None):
         noise = default(noise, lambda: torch.randn_like(image_embed))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6d86262..410d7f5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ setup(
       'dream = dalle2_pytorch.cli:dream'
     ],
   },
-  version = '0.1.6',
+  version = '0.1.7',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'DALL-E 2',
   author = 'Phil Wang',