Imagine that our daily emotions - anger, joy, fear, love - are not just psychological reactions, but a kind of authority that constitutes the underlying rules of the world, a kind of "high-dimensional energy" that can be refined and absorbed.
In this world, power arises from the spectrum of emotions emanating from humanity's collective subconscious. The top powerhouses are those who can refine certain emotional concepts common to humans into the authority of their own godhead, and use this to formulate rules and control reality.