diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8a9208e6a..1a8c84da0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## Next
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix a bug where the `OllamaEmbedder` would return a `list[list[float]]` instead of the expected `list[float]`.
+
 ## 1.4.1
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/src/neo4j_graphrag/embeddings/ollama.py b/src/neo4j_graphrag/embeddings/ollama.py
index d0c9fec9b..78775ba60 100644
--- a/src/neo4j_graphrag/embeddings/ollama.py
+++ b/src/neo4j_graphrag/embeddings/ollama.py
@@ -55,10 +55,12 @@ def embed_query(self, text: str, **kwargs: Any) -> list[float]:
             **kwargs,
         )
 
-        if embeddings_response is None or embeddings_response.embeddings is None:
+        if embeddings_response is None or not embeddings_response.embeddings:
             raise EmbeddingsGenerationError("Failed to retrieve embeddings.")
 
-        embedding = embeddings_response.embeddings
+        embeddings = embeddings_response.embeddings
+        # client always returns a sequence of sequences
+        embedding = embeddings[0]
         if not isinstance(embedding, list):
             raise EmbeddingsGenerationError("Embedding is not a list of floats.")
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/embeddings/test_ollama_embedder.py b/tests/unit/embeddings/test_ollama_embedder.py
index dded2b87f..1cddd1103 100644
--- a/tests/unit/embeddings/test_ollama_embedder.py
+++ b/tests/unit/embeddings/test_ollama_embedder.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 import pytest
 from neo4j_graphrag.embeddings.ollama import OllamaEmbeddings
+from neo4j_graphrag.exceptions import EmbeddingsGenerationError
 
 
 @patch("builtins.__import__", side_effect=ImportError)
@@ -27,9 +28,19 @@ def test_ollama_embedder_missing_dependency(mock_import: Mock) -> None:
 @patch("builtins.__import__")
 def test_ollama_embedder_happy_path(mock_import: Mock) -> None:
     mock_import.return_value.Client.return_value.embed.return_value = MagicMock(
-        embeddings=[1.0, 2.0],
+        embeddings=[[1.0, 2.0]],
     )
     embedder = OllamaEmbeddings(model="test")
     res = embedder.embed_query("my text")
     assert isinstance(res, list)
     assert res == [1.0, 2.0]
+
+
+@patch("builtins.__import__")
+def test_ollama_embedder_empty_list(mock_import: Mock) -> None:
+    mock_import.return_value.Client.return_value.embed.return_value = MagicMock(
+        embeddings=[],
+    )
+    embedder = OllamaEmbeddings(model="test")
+    with pytest.raises(EmbeddingsGenerationError):
+        embedder.embed_query("my text")