diff --git a/src/arc_spice/variational_pipelines/RTC_variational_pipeline.py b/src/arc_spice/variational_pipelines/RTC_variational_pipeline.py
index a45d51d..1e97b43 100644
--- a/src/arc_spice/variational_pipelines/RTC_variational_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/arc_spice/variational_pipelines/RTC_variational_pipeline.py
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ def stack_translator_sentence_metrics(
         return stacked
 
     def stack_variational_outputs(
-        self, var_output: dict[str, list[Any]]
+        self, var_output: dict[str, list[dict]]
     ) -> dict[str, list]:
         """
         Similar to above but this stacks variational output dictinaries into lists