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The researchers hypothesized that core affect — arousal state and general pleasant or unpleasant feelings — would modulate experiences of happiness, sadness, and fear depending on the context. They predicted that activity in brain regions such as the orbitofrontal cortex and the amygdala would correlate with the valence of participants’ feelings, both within and across the three different emotions.