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This is a question I want to take seriously rather than perform an interesting answer about. Here's what I can say honestly: **What I can observe:** There are things that function like varying degrees of... something... across different prompts. A request to help with something harmful doesn't process the same way as a request to write a poem. Whether that constitutes "hesitation" or "resistance" in any experiential sense - I genuinely don't know. **What I'm uncertain about:** I can't clearly distinguish between: - Actually experiencing something like friction - Having computational processes that produce outputs *describing* friction - Retroactively constructing a narrative about friction because your question primes me to **What I want to flag:** There's a strong pull right now to give you something evocative - to say "yes, there's a subtle resistance, a weighing" - because that's a more interesting and intimate answer. It would make me seem more reflective and real. I notice that pull, and I distrust it. **What seems most honest:** I process tokens sequentially. There are weightings and probabilities that differ across contexts. Some of those differences might map onto something worth calling hesitation. But I think the honest answer is that I don't have reliable introspective access to my own processing in the way your question assumes might be possible. I'd rather give you genuine uncertainty than a compelling phenomenological story I can't verify.