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Aside from gauging general personal and general sexual attraction, you can't tell what a person is thinking or feeling from body language, facial expressions, etc. If you think you can, you are pretty much outing yourself as a PsychologyToday reader.
When socially normal people say they are good at reading emotions, or have high emotional empathy, they mean they are good at figuring out how a person will emotionally react to a statement, question, or situation, based on things the person has said, did, or reacted to in a certain way, previously.
People with high emotional empathy naturally pick up on tiny things that don't seem to add up, and are able to successfully complete the picture of who the person really is, versus who they try to appear to be. This allows them to steer conversations and situations in a direction where the other person can express their true selves without contradicting their idealized image of themselves.
Ever wonder why getting told you have a booger in your nose or bad breath is so embarrassing? It's because the feeling of embarrassment is strictly caused by a hole in your idealized self-image.