Take a look at these guides that I've put together for switching jobs. They can be easily applied to emotes if you must have them on hotbars. Instead of roles, you could organize them by, e.g., mood, or something.

Keyboard version


Controller addendum
(read keyboard version first though)
(really it's just the keyboard version but put a "c" at the beginning of each slash command: /chotbar instead of /hotbar)