Your intuition is information, not a verdict.

Instinct is worth listening to. It draws on pattern recognition faster than you can articulate and it frequently notices things before your reasoning catches up. What it cannot do is establish anything, because it produces the same feeling of certainty whether it is reading the room correctly or replaying an old bias.

Treat a hunch as a prompt to look rather than as a finding. Ask what you might have picked up on and go check. If you find something, you have both the instinct and the evidence. If you find nothing, you have learned something about the instinct.