diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0499f9a..a9362b4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Semantic search over a personal journal archive and a collection of clippings. U
 ## How it works
 
 ```
-Query → Embed (BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5) → Vector similarity (top-30) → Cross-encoder re-rank (top-15) → LLM synthesis (command-r7b via Ollama, or OpenAI API) → Response + sources
+Query → Embed (BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5) → Vector similarity (top-30) → Cross-encoder re-rank (top-15) → LLM synthesis (Gemma4 via Ollama, or OpenAI API) → Response + sources
 ```
 
 1. **Build**: Source files are chunked (256 tokens, 25-token overlap) and embedded into a vector store using LlamaIndex. The journal index uses LlamaIndex's JSON store; the clippings index uses ChromaDB. Both support incremental updates.
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ ssearch/
 
 ## Setup
 
-**Prerequisites**: Python 3.12, [Ollama](https://ollama.com) with `command-r7b` pulled.
+**Prerequisites**: Python 3.12, [Ollama](https://ollama.com) with `gemma4:e4b` or similar pulled.
 
 ```bash
 cd ssearch
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The default incremental mode loads the existing index, compares file sizes and m
 
 #### Semantic search with LLM synthesis
 
-**Requires Ollama running with `command-r7b`.**
+**Requires Ollama running with `gemma4`.**
 
 **Hybrid BM25 + vector** (`query_hybrid.py`): Retrieves top 20 by vector similarity and top 20 by BM25 term frequency, merges and deduplicates, re-ranks the union to top 15, synthesizes. Catches exact name/term matches that vector-only retrieval misses.
 ```bash
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Key parameters (set in source files):
 | Initial retrieval | 30 chunks | query and retrieve scripts |
 | Re-rank model | `cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2` | query and retrieve scripts |
 | Re-rank top-n | 15 | query and retrieve scripts |
-| LLM | `command-r7b` (Ollama) or `gpt-4o-mini` (OpenAI API) | `query_hybrid.py` |
+| LLM | `gemma4:e4b` (Ollama) or `gpt-4o-mini` (OpenAI API) | `query_hybrid.py` |
 | Temperature | 0.3 | `query_hybrid.py` |
 | Context window | 8000 tokens | `query_hybrid.py` |
 | Request timeout | 360 seconds | `query_hybrid.py` |
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Key parameters (set in source files):
 
 - **BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5 over all-mpnet-base-v2**: Better semantic matching quality for journal text despite slower embedding.
 - **256-token chunks**: Tested 512 and 384; 256 with 25-token overlap produced the highest quality matches.
-- **command-r7b over llama3.1:8B**: Sticks closer to provided context with less hallucination at comparable speed.
+- **gemma4:e4b over command-r7b**: Sticks closer to provided context with less hallucination at comparable speed. Earlier, selected **command-r7b over llama3.1:8B** for similar reasons.
 - **Cross-encoder re-ranking**: Retrieve top-30 via bi-encoder, re-rank to top-15 with a cross-encoder that scores each (query, chunk) pair jointly. Tested three models; `ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2` selected over `stsb-roberta-base` (wrong task) and `BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3` (slower, weak score tail).
 - **HyDE query rewriting tested and dropped**: Did not improve results over direct prompt engineering.
 - **Hybrid BM25 + vector retrieval**: BM25 nominates candidates with exact term matches that embeddings miss; the cross-encoder decides final relevance.
diff --git a/query_hybrid.py b/query_hybrid.py
index e32d942..62175fa 100644
--- a/query_hybrid.py
+++ b/query_hybrid.py
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ import sys
 # Embedding model (must match build_store.py)
 EMBED_MODEL = HuggingFaceEmbedding(cache_folder="./models", model_name="BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5", local_files_only=True)
 
-# LLM model for generation
-LLM_MODEL = "command-r7b"
+# LLM model for generation. Use temp 0.3.
+#LLM_MODEL = "command-r7b"
+# testing gemma4:e4b. Recommendations are to use temp 1.0
+LLM_MODEL = "gemma4:e4b"
 
 # Cross-encoder model for re-ranking (cached in ./models/)
 RERANK_MODEL = "cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2"
@@ -89,7 +91,8 @@ def main():
     # Note: Ollama temperature defaults to 0.8
     Settings.llm = Ollama(
         model=LLM_MODEL,
-        temperature=0.3,
+        temperature=1.0,
+        thinking=True,          # enable
         request_timeout=360.0,
         context_window=8000,
     )
@@ -153,9 +156,20 @@ def main():
     n_bm25_only = len([n for n in bm25_nodes if n.node.node_id not in {v.node.node_id for v in vector_nodes}])
     n_both = len(vector_nodes) + len(bm25_nodes) - len(merged)
 
+    # Estimate context length (prompt + node text)
+    context_text = "\n\n".join(n.get_content() for n in reranked)
+    prompt_text = PROMPT.format(context_str=context_text, query_str=q)
+    n_context_tokens = len(prompt_text.split())  # rough word count; ~1.3 tokens/word
+
     print(f"\nQuery: {q}")
-    print(f"Vector: {len(vector_nodes)}, BM25: {len(bm25_nodes)}, "
+    print(f"Vector: {len(vector_nodes)} ({n_vector_only} unique), "
+          f"BM25: {len(bm25_nodes)} ({n_bm25_only} unique), "
           f"overlap: {n_both}, merged: {len(merged)}, re-ranked to: {len(reranked)}")
+    
+    # The token estimate uses a ~1.3 tokens/word ratio, which is a rough approximation. 
+    # For an exact count you'd need the model's tokenizer, but this gives a useful ballpark 
+    # for gauging how much of the context window we use.
+    print(f"Context: ~{n_context_tokens} words (~{int(n_context_tokens * 1.3)} tokens)")
 
     # Synthesize response with LLM
     synthesizer = get_response_synthesizer(text_qa_template=PROMPT)
@@ -169,7 +183,7 @@ def main():
     for node in response.source_nodes:
         meta = getattr(node, "metadata", None) or node.node.metadata
         score = getattr(node, "score", None)
-        print(f"{meta.get('file_name')}  {meta.get('file_path')}  {score:.3f}")
+        print(f"data/{meta.get('file_name')}  {score:.3f}")
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/run_query.sh b/run_query.sh
index 674b79f..7a70b77 100755
--- a/run_query.sh
+++ b/run_query.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@
 # Usage: ./run_query.sh 
 
 QUERY_SCRIPT="query_hybrid.py"
+VENV_DIR=".venv"
+
+# Activate the virtual environment
+if [ -d "$VENV_DIR" ]; then
+    source "$VENV_DIR/bin/activate"
+    echo "Activated virtual environment: $VENV_DIR"
+else
+    echo "Error: Virtual environment not found at '$VENV_DIR'" >&2
+    echo "Create one with: python3 -m venv $VENV_DIR" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
 
 echo -e "Current query engine is $QUERY_SCRIPT\n"
 
diff --git a/run_retrieve.sh b/run_retrieve.sh
index c56d584..70805ad 100755
--- a/run_retrieve.sh
+++ b/run_retrieve.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@
 # Usage: ./run_query.sh 
 
 QUERY_SCRIPT="retrieve.py"
+VENV_DIR=".venv"
+
+# Activate the virtual environment
+if [ -d "$VENV_DIR" ]; then
+    source "$VENV_DIR/bin/activate"
+    echo "Activated virtual environment: $VENV_DIR"
+else
+    echo "Error: Virtual environment not found at '$VENV_DIR'" >&2
+    echo "Create one with: python3 -m venv $VENV_DIR" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
 
 echo -e "$QUERY_SCRIPT -- retrieve vector store chunks based on similaity + BM25 with reranking.\n"