How do I place restrictions on the values that the Emcee sampler can choose?

I am trying to use the emcee python package to draw samples from a distribution and maximize the likelihood that my data came from the sampled parameters.

So for example, I have a parameter N and I trying to find a value for N that maximizes the posterior likelihood. (I'm actually using 3 parameters, but I'm using 1 in this example for simplicity).

I ran: sampler = emcee.EnsembleSampler(100, 3, logL, args=[new_data])

The I chose initial positions p0 for my parameters.

And then I ran:

pos, prob, state = sampler.run_mcmc(p0, 100)  # burn in
sampler.reset()
pox, prob, state = sampler.run_mcmc(pos, 100, rstate0=state)  # sample

It's mostly working, but sometimes the sampler chooses values for N that are nonphysical.

So how do I place restrictions on the range of values that are chosen by the sampler? For example, perhaps I want the sampler to stop trying N as a negative number or to stop N being greater than 100.

I understand that I can change my own likelihood function to make the nonphysical values pay a big penalty and be disfavoured - but I don't want the sampler to be allowed to even choose them in the first place.

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I now think that I am supposed to build my likelihood function such that the numbers I don't want the sampler to choose (e.g. negative numbers) are penalised and given a very low likelihood.

I just want someone to confirm this is what I should be doing, in case I am missing a much more simple way to restrict which numbers are chosen in Emcee itself.

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