[guided]The argument is the universal "tail-of-convergent-series" trick: a non-negative series with a finite total has vanishing tails along any exhausting sequence of finite subsets. We make this rigorous via the monotone convergence theorem.
Set $a_k := (1 + |k|^2)^s\, |\hat{f}(k)|^2$ for $k \in \mathbb{Z}^n$. Since $(1 + |k|^2)^s > 0$ and $|\hat{f}(k)|^2 \ge 0$, we have $a_k \ge 0$ for every $k$. By the hypothesis $f \in H^s(\mathbb{T}^n)$,
\begin{align*}
T := \sum_{k \in \mathbb{Z}^n} a_k = \|f\|_{H^s(\mathbb{T}^n)}^2 < \infty.
\end{align*}
This unrestricted sum over $\mathbb{Z}^n$ is well-defined as the supremum of the partial sums $\sum_{k \in F} a_k$ over finite subsets $F \subset \mathbb{Z}^n$, since the summands are non-negative and the order of summation is irrelevant for non-negative series.
We choose the exhausting sequence $E_N := \{k \in \mathbb{Z}^n : |k|_\infty \le N\}$ for $N \in \mathbb{N}$. Three properties hold: (i) each $E_N$ is finite, with cardinality $(2N+1)^n$; (ii) they are nested, $E_N \subseteq E_{N+1}$, since $|k|_\infty \le N$ implies $|k|_\infty \le N+1$; (iii) they exhaust $\mathbb{Z}^n$, because for any $k \in \mathbb{Z}^n$ the integer $|k|_\infty$ is finite, so $k \in E_N$ for all $N \ge |k|_\infty$. The partial sums
\begin{align*}
T_N := \sum_{k \in E_N} a_k
\end{align*}
are therefore well-defined finite sums, and the nesting $E_N \subseteq E_{N+1}$ combined with $a_k \ge 0$ gives $T_N \le T_{N+1}$. Each $T_N$ is bounded above by $T$ since $E_N \subseteq \mathbb{Z}^n$ and $a_k \ge 0$.
We now apply the monotone convergence theorem in the form most natural here: integration against counting measure $\#$ on $\mathbb{Z}^n$. Define the simple non-negative functions
\begin{align*}
g_N: \mathbb{Z}^n &\to [0, \infty) \\
k &\mapsto a_k\, \mathbb{1}_{E_N}(k),
\end{align*}
and the pointwise limit $g(k) := a_k$. By construction $0 \le g_N(k) \le g_{N+1}(k)$ for every $k$ (because $\mathbb{1}_{E_N} \le \mathbb{1}_{E_{N+1}}$), and $g_N(k) \uparrow g(k)$ pointwise as $N \to \infty$ (since each $k$ eventually belongs to all $E_N$ with $N \ge |k|_\infty$). The hypotheses of the monotone convergence theorem are satisfied: the functions $g_N$ are measurable (every function on the discrete space $\mathbb{Z}^n$ is measurable with respect to the power-set $\sigma$-algebra), non-negative, and monotone increasing to $g$. The conclusion of MCT is
\begin{align*}
\lim_{N \to \infty} \int_{\mathbb{Z}^n} g_N\, d\# = \int_{\mathbb{Z}^n} g\, d\#.
\end{align*}
Translating integrals against counting measure into series, $\int_{\mathbb{Z}^n} g_N\, d\# = \sum_{k \in \mathbb{Z}^n} g_N(k) = T_N$ and $\int_{\mathbb{Z}^n} g\, d\# = T$, so $T_N \to T$.
Equivalently, one can invoke the rearrangement theorem for non-negative series: for $a_k \ge 0$, the unrestricted sum $\sum_{k \in \mathbb{Z}^n} a_k$ equals the limit of partial sums over any exhausting sequence of finite subsets of $\mathbb{Z}^n$. Both formulations require only non-negativity of the summands and exhaustion of the index set — exactly the conditions we verified.
The squared distance $\|f - S_N f\|_{H^s}^2$ is exactly the tail $T - T_N$ because the Fourier coefficients of $f - S_N f$ vanish on $E_N$ and equal $\hat{f}(k)$ off $E_N$; the weighted square-sum therefore picks up exactly the complementary indices $\{|k|_\infty > N\}$. From $T_N \to T$ we conclude $T - T_N \to 0$, hence
\begin{align*}
\|f - S_N f\|_{H^s(\mathbb{T}^n)}^2 = T - T_N \to 0,
\end{align*}
and taking square roots, $\|f - S_N f\|_{H^s(\mathbb{T}^n)} \to 0$.
Why does this argument work uniformly in $s \in \mathbb{R}$? Because the only thing that matters is that the full weighted sum is finite (membership in $H^s$). The sign or magnitude of $s$ affects the relative weighting of high vs low frequencies, but does not affect the existence of the limit of monotone partial sums of non-negative terms.[/guided]