In the set of SUSY notes I'm following, the Pauli operator is given as: ${(\sigma^\mu)}_{\alpha\dot{\alpha}} = (I_2, \sigma^1, \sigma^2, \sigma^3)$.

The antisymmetric tensor that lowers and raises indices is defined as: $\epsilon^{\alpha\beta} = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$

When we define the barred Pauli operator by applying this twice,

${(\bar{\sigma}^\mu)}^{\dot{\alpha}\alpha} = \epsilon^{\alpha\beta}\epsilon^{\dot{\alpha}\dot{\beta}} {(\sigma^\mu)}_{\beta\dot{\beta}} = (I_2, -\sigma^1, -\sigma^2, -\sigma^3)$.

I really struggle with Spinor indices, and keep trying to think of them as matrices and which I'm sure is incredibly wrong. For example, acting on this for ${(\bar{\sigma}^0)}^{\dot{\alpha}\alpha} = \epsilon^{\alpha\beta}\epsilon^{\dot{\alpha}\dot{\beta}} {(\sigma^0)}_{\beta\dot{\beta}}$, I have written

$\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}^{\alpha\beta}\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}^{\dot{\alpha}\dot{\beta}}\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}_{\beta\dot{\beta}} = \begin{pmatrix} -1 & 0 \\ 0 & -1 \end{pmatrix}^{\dot{\alpha}\alpha} = (-I_2)^{\dot{\alpha}\alpha}$,

whereas looking at the notes I should not have a minus sign. How does applying the epsilon tensor leave the first element of the Pauli operator ($I_2$) intact but applying a minus sign to the rest of the barred tensor? Or is this just a convention that we define?

Apologies if there are any errors in the TeX, still learning! Any help on this area would be great, really think I'm doing this wrong by trying to write things out in matrices and contract Spinor indices.