diff --git a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/get_supported_openai_params.py b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/get_supported_openai_params.py
index e87042b9101..646be371ecf 100644
--- a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/get_supported_openai_params.py
+++ b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/get_supported_openai_params.py
@@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ def get_supported_openai_params(
         )
     elif custom_llm_provider == "sambanova":
         if request_type == "embeddings":
-            litellm.SambaNovaEmbeddingConfig().get_supported_openai_params(model=model)
+            return litellm.SambaNovaEmbeddingConfig().get_supported_openai_params(
+                model=model
+            )
         else:
             return litellm.SambanovaConfig().get_supported_openai_params(model=model)
     elif custom_llm_provider == "nebius":
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_get_supported_openai_params.py b/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_get_supported_openai_params.py
index 3c280c6ba92..84900e3f2ed 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_get_supported_openai_params.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/litellm_core_utils/test_get_supported_openai_params.py
@@ -132,3 +132,17 @@ def test_azure_base_model_detection_preserved():
     assert params is not None
     assert "reasoning_effort" in params
     assert "tools" in params
+
+
+def test_sambanova_embeddings_request_returns_list_not_none():
+    """The sambanova embeddings branch resolved the config but dropped the result,
+    so embedding requests got ``None`` instead of the supported-params list while the
+    chat branch returned correctly. A list (the sambanova embeddings config exposes no
+    extra params, hence ``[]``) must reach the caller."""
+    embedding_params = get_supported_openai_params(
+        model="E5-Mistral-7B-Instruct",
+        custom_llm_provider="sambanova",
+        request_type="embeddings",
+    )
+
+    assert embedding_params == []