A common question: how can the model give a confidence from only a few lines of evidence? It doesn’t make up a confidence from the amount of evidence. It reads one from the shape of its answer. Small evidence does not break it. It admits “I’m not sure”. Refer the below diagram:
No typed number. An LLM writes “0.9” as text. A System One model scores every option in one forward pass and turns the scores into probabilities that add up to 1.
Confidence is distance from an even split. One tall bar means high confidence. Bars that are all about equal mean low confidence.
Thin evidence gives flat bars. With only “customer is upset”, four options might land near 0.30, 0.28, 0.24 and 0.18. That is a low-confidence answer, and your gate should send it to a human. With “card used in 3 countries in 1 hour”, fraud might reach 0.86.
Training and tuning keep the bars honest. Jev is trained so its probabilities match how often it is right (RLCD). Kev applies a fitted temperature, which rescales the bars without changing which option wins.
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