diff --git a/bertopic/backend/_sklearn.py b/bertopic/backend/_sklearn.py
index d8150fe6..8e60f823 100644
--- a/bertopic/backend/_sklearn.py
+++ b/bertopic/backend/_sklearn.py
@@ -65,4 +65,4 @@ def embed(self, documents, verbose=False):
         except NotFittedError:
             embeddings = self.pipe.fit_transform(documents)
 
-        return embeddings
+        return embeddings.toarray() if hasattr(embeddings, "toarray") else embeddings