Is self-evaluation successful in measuring emotion?

Question addressed by testing whether self-evaluation transcripts mentioning emotion words have higher cosine similarity to corresponding probes

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Persistence and Introspection of Emotion Features

Scott Sauers · Imago · Janus · Antra Tessera

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Findings (1)

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17 of 83 emotions tested show significant associations between SAE feature self-evaluation transcripts mentioning the emotion word and higher cosine similarity to that emotion probe; 67 of 83 have positive associations.
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Demonstrates partial but reliable validity of self-evaluation for measuring probe emotionality

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