Sorry to hear about your fish. Siamese fighting fish are highly aggressive/territorial, so this kind of story actually isn’t unusual. For that reason, people will often recommend not keeping them in tanks with other fish or mirrors.
As for fish in general, not much is really known about their cognition. They react to things in some ways that suggest emotions, e.g. they exhibit signs of “stress” if kept in a tank that doesn’t have hiding places to help them feel safe, and some of the more intelligent species show signs of “boredom” if their tank is too small or empty. Their lifespans can be shortened by these negative “emotions.” But it’s unclear whether they actually experience these feelings as emotions in a way thats meaningfully comparable to human emotion, or if it’s all just instinct and impulse.