diff --git a/activation_store/collect.py b/activation_store/collect.py
index 2256252..52690f8 100644
--- a/activation_store/collect.py
+++ b/activation_store/collect.py
@@ -42,8 +42,12 @@ def default_postprocess_result(input: dict, trace: TraceDict, output: ModelOutpu
         o['attention_mask'] = input['attention_mask']
     if 'label' in input:
         o['label'] = input['label']
-    input = output = acts = None
 
+    # convert any 0d tensors like loss to 1d, by repeating along batch dimension
+    for k, v in o.items():
+        if v.dim() == 0:
+            bs = input['input_ids'].shape[0]
+            o[k] = v.repeat(bs)
     return o
 
 
@@ -105,7 +109,7 @@ def activation_store(loader: DataLoader, model: AutoModelForCausalLM, dataset_na
         for bo in iterator:
 
             bs = len(next(iter(bo.values())))
-            assert all(len(v) == bs for v in bo.values()), "must return Dict[str,Tensor] and all tensors with same batch size a first dimension"
+            assert all(len(v) == bs for v in bo.values()), "must return Dict[str,Tensor] and all tensors with same batch size as first dimension"
 
             # or maybe better compression to `writer.write(example, key)` for each
             writer.write_batch(bo)