No, I meant that he could use his rings immediately after feeling a different emotion, because he could either feel one emotion after the other, or both at the same time.
Hell, even outside of this story, Canon has shown that you can use a ring just fine when you're feeling a different emotion, as long as you're also feeling your ring's emotion at the same time.
Furthermore, what about Sinestro? When he went full dictator, he was using a green ring at the start to oppress his homeworld and terrify his people into obeying him, yet his ring obviously never malfunctionned whenever he tried to instill fear instead of will, and it didn't stop functionning when he felt rage and betrayal at having Hal and the rest of his corps turn on him either.
And then, there's also the times when we see one person use more than one ring color at the same time (like the time when Hal became a Green/Blue lantern, or when Guy became a Green/Red or Violet/Red lantern on two separate occasions), which obviously proves that you can feel two emotions at the same time when using a ring, otherwise this feat obviously wouldn't be possible, because the emotions would cancel each other out. And then, there's what Razer did in the later seasons of canon Young Justice...