How lisa fieldman barret describe state, emotion and feeling

Lisa Feldman Barrett distinguishes bodily state, feeling, and emotion: the brain regulates the body and summarizes its sensory condition as affective feeling; emotion is the meaning the brain makes from those feelings in context. 1

• Feelings or affect: A broad sense of pleasantness or unpleasantness, calm or arousal, comfort or discomfort. These summarize bodily state and are not emotions themselves. 2
• Emotions: They do not have universal, diagnostic patterns of bodily change, brain activity, or facial movement. The same signals can have different meanings, so no single pattern reliably identifies an emotion. 3
• How emotions are constructed: The brain interprets affective sensations as it considers context, then gives them meaning—such as what caused them and what action might be useful. That interpretation can differ with the situation and the concepts a person has learned. 4 5
• Shifting emotional experience: Changing bodily state—through sleep, movement, or other changes—or changing how sensations are interpreted can shift affect or the emotion constructed from it. 6 7
• Emotional granularity: Using more precise categories and words can help distinguish what a feeling might mean and guide a fitting response; Barrett describes granularity as making categories more fine-grained. 8