The note, assembling
Mood is what they say; affect is what you see. Chart mood in quotation marks, affect in clinical adjectives, and the two will never blur. When they disagree — “I’m fine” through tears, or a cheerful account of a plan to die — the incongruence is itself one of the most important findings you can record, and it earns a direct follow-up question, not just a line in the note.
Never write a conclusion where a description belongs. Judgement words follow a person from chart to chart and change how much explanation, analgesia and benefit of the doubt the next clinician offers. Write the behaviour and what it may be communicating.