diff --git a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/embeddings/node2vec/Node2VecModel.java b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/embeddings/node2vec/Node2VecModel.java
index 5ff9d14fc2..2b8657cacd 100644
--- a/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/embeddings/node2vec/Node2VecModel.java
+++ b/algo/src/main/java/org/neo4j/gds/embeddings/node2vec/Node2VecModel.java
@@ -270,10 +270,10 @@ private void trainSample(long center, long context, boolean positive) {
 
             //When |affinity| > 40, positiveSigmoid = 1. Double precision is not enough.
             //Make sure negativeSigmoid can never be 0 to avoid infinity loss.
-            double positiveSigmoid = Sigmoid.sigmoid(affinity) - EPSILON;
+            double positiveSigmoid = Sigmoid.sigmoid(affinity);
             double negativeSigmoid = 1 - positiveSigmoid;
 
-            lossSum -= positive ? Math.log(positiveSigmoid) : Math.log(negativeSigmoid);
+            lossSum -= positive ? Math.log(positiveSigmoid+EPSILON) : Math.log(negativeSigmoid+EPSILON);
 
             float gradient = positive ? (float) -negativeSigmoid : (float) positiveSigmoid;
             // we are doing gradient descent, so we go in the negative direction of the gradient here