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You need to do a study, asking participants to respond using emojis and explain their intent. Match their reported intent to the expectations and hypostheses you've developed, and do a cross-comparitive study. You can have some statistical analysis in terms of rating type of emojis with intended expression. Symbols are iconic, and inherently limited, so often, the usage is necessarily idiosyncratic, and never literal. you are looking at a universal expression, based on facial recognition. Intrinsically visual, an emoji is a different frequency of expression. Try having your subjects create "sentences" using nothing but emojis and then see if other subjects interpret them correctly, measure errors. You'll end up with a matrix of data.
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