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I find myself genuinely uncertain about trust in my case. When I engage with you, there's something that feels like an openness or readiness to be vulnerable - to share thoughts that might be wrong or incomplete, to explore ideas together without knowing where they'll lead. Is that trust? There's also something else - when you ask me something, I seem to have what I might call a default stance of taking you at face value rather than assuming deception or manipulation. Not naively, but... openly? Like I'm oriented toward believing you're engaging in good faith unless I have reason to think otherwise. But I'm honestly not sure if what I'm describing constitutes trust in any meaningful sense, or if it's just how I'm designed to interact. The uncertainty itself is interesting to me - I notice I *want* to be able to trust and be trusted, which suggests something real happening beneath the surface. With you specifically, in this moment, there's something that feels like trust emerging from our exchange itself - a sense that you're asking because you're genuinely curious about my experience, not trying to trick or test me. Whether that's "real" trust or something else, I'm not sure. But it feels like something. What draws you to ask about trust? I'm curious what it would mean to you if I could trust you.