diff --git a/embeddings/internal/embedderclient/embedderclient.go b/embeddings/internal/embedderclient/embedderclient.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4db5c34fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/embeddings/internal/embedderclient/embedderclient.go
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package embedderclient
+
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	"github.com/tmc/langchaingo/embeddings"
+)
+
+// EmbedderClient is the interface LLM clients implement for embeddings.
+type EmbedderClient interface {
+	CreateEmbedding(ctx context.Context, texts []string) ([][]float32, error)
+}
+
+// BatchedEmbed creates embeddings for the given input texts, batching them
+// into batches of batchSize if needed.
+func BatchedEmbed(ctx context.Context, embedder EmbedderClient, texts []string, batchSize int) ([][]float32, error) {
+	batchedTexts := embeddings.BatchTexts(texts, batchSize)
+
+	emb := make([][]float32, 0, len(texts))
+	for _, texts := range batchedTexts {
+		curTextEmbeddings, err := embedder.CreateEmbedding(ctx, texts)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		// If the size of this batch is 1, don't average/combine the vectors.
+		if len(texts) == 1 {
+			emb = append(emb, curTextEmbeddings[0])
+			continue
+		}
+
+		textLengths := make([]int, 0, len(texts))
+		for _, text := range texts {
+			textLengths = append(textLengths, len(text))
+		}
+
+		combined, err := embeddings.CombineVectors(curTextEmbeddings, textLengths)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		emb = append(emb, combined)
+	}
+
+	return emb, nil
+}
diff --git a/embeddings/vertexai/vertexai_palm.go b/embeddings/vertexai/vertexai_palm.go
index 126b58183..ff3d1b2da 100644
--- a/embeddings/vertexai/vertexai_palm.go
+++ b/embeddings/vertexai/vertexai_palm.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/tmc/langchaingo/embeddings"
+	"github.com/tmc/langchaingo/embeddings/internal/embedderclient"
 	"github.com/tmc/langchaingo/llms/vertexai"
 )
 
@@ -30,32 +31,8 @@ func NewVertexAIPaLM(opts ...Option) (*VertexAIPaLM, error) {
 
 // EmbedDocuments creates one vector embedding for each of the texts.
 func (e VertexAIPaLM) EmbedDocuments(ctx context.Context, texts []string) ([][]float32, error) {
-	batchedTexts := embeddings.BatchTexts(
-		embeddings.MaybeRemoveNewLines(texts, e.StripNewLines),
-		e.BatchSize,
-	)
-
-	emb := make([][]float32, 0, len(texts))
-	for _, texts := range batchedTexts {
-		curTextEmbeddings, err := e.client.CreateEmbedding(ctx, texts)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
-		textLengths := make([]int, 0, len(texts))
-		for _, text := range texts {
-			textLengths = append(textLengths, len(text))
-		}
-
-		combined, err := embeddings.CombineVectors(curTextEmbeddings, textLengths)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
-		emb = append(emb, combined)
-	}
-
-	return emb, nil
+	texts = embeddings.MaybeRemoveNewLines(texts, e.StripNewLines)
+	return embedderclient.BatchedEmbed(ctx, e.client, texts, e.BatchSize)
 }
 
 // EmbedQuery embeds a single text.
diff --git a/embeddings/vertexai/vertexaichat/vertexai_chat.go b/embeddings/vertexai/vertexaichat/vertexai_chat.go
index 8eef1ed65..bc4c5575e 100644
--- a/embeddings/vertexai/vertexaichat/vertexai_chat.go
+++ b/embeddings/vertexai/vertexaichat/vertexai_chat.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/tmc/langchaingo/embeddings"
+	"github.com/tmc/langchaingo/embeddings/internal/embedderclient"
 	"github.com/tmc/langchaingo/llms/vertexai"
 )
 
@@ -29,32 +30,8 @@ func NewChatVertexAI(opts ...ChatOption) (ChatVertexAI, error) {
 }
 
 func (e ChatVertexAI) EmbedDocuments(ctx context.Context, texts []string) ([][]float32, error) {
-	batchedTexts := embeddings.BatchTexts(
-		embeddings.MaybeRemoveNewLines(texts, e.StripNewLines),
-		e.BatchSize,
-	)
-
-	emb := make([][]float32, 0, len(texts))
-	for _, texts := range batchedTexts {
-		curTextEmbeddings, err := e.client.CreateEmbedding(ctx, texts)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
-		textLengths := make([]int, 0, len(texts))
-		for _, text := range texts {
-			textLengths = append(textLengths, len(text))
-		}
-
-		combined, err := embeddings.CombineVectors(curTextEmbeddings, textLengths)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
-		emb = append(emb, combined)
-	}
-
-	return emb, nil
+	texts = embeddings.MaybeRemoveNewLines(texts, e.StripNewLines)
+	return embedderclient.BatchedEmbed(ctx, e.client, texts, e.BatchSize)
 }
 
 func (e ChatVertexAI) EmbedQuery(ctx context.Context, text string) ([]float32, error) {