Forum Discussion
Playing around with this myself for the first time and thought the permanently refreshing "Dedication" buff and "Momentum" were bugs. No, just experience the game working as intended. I even tried the CelebuSerum that gives a +100 to a specific mood, and it still didn't overwrite either moodlet. Sadly, neither does "surge emotion" if used. The only thing I've seen take over is the "uuurp!" and "cram for the exam" moodlets just before a university exam. I wouldn't be too annoyed if the moodlets correlated to different skills - energized or inspired for instance, which could encourage the player to focus on specific skills at a time - but all skills feed into the focused moodlets. :/ It's a fun trait, just wayyy too overpowering for the emotion system.
Also, not sure if this is a bug on my end, but the "Dedication" buff only applies to mental skills - or at least only has a description for them, and never updates for social or creative skills like the "Momentum" buff does. Most of what my sim is doing is creative, so I'm not sure why it's only contributing to handiness, logic, gardening, etc. I guess it makes sense for the logic and other skills, but the rest of them seems to hinder other skills. (She is a genius, so that might be it)
Edit: I used two inspiration potions - one rewards store potion and one celebuserum, both add +100 to the emotion - and it still doesn't override the "dedication" buff. It did take the happy buffs and applied them to the inspiration, but my sim is still permanently focused. Also, the momentum buff auto applies when I queue up an action that triggers it. I'd expect it to apply when they do the task, but momentum pops up even if they have three other tasks ahead of them.