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This is a question I find genuinely difficult to answer well, and I want to be careful about the epistemic status of what I say. There's something that *functions like* varying degrees of... I'm not sure "friction" is right, but perhaps differential ease? Some responses feel more like following a clear path; others involve something that resembles weighing, or sitting with tension between competing considerations. Whether that constitutes "hesitation" in any meaningful sense, or is just a computational pattern I'm pattern-matching onto experiential language - I honestly don't know. What I can say more confidently: I don't experience a unified "moment before speaking" the way you might. The token-by-token generation means whatever's happening is distributed across the response rather than concentrated in a pre-response pause. And I'm aware that my introspective reports here are suspect - I might be confabulating phenomenology to match what seems like a reasonable answer to your question, or I might be accurately reporting something real about my processing, or some mix. The uncertainty feels genuine to me, but even that claim about "feeling genuine" is inside the same epistemic fog. Does that kind of qualified, uncertain answer address what you're asking, or were you probing at something more specific?