Skinless sausages may produce such emotion (5)
I believe the answer is:
anger
'such emotion' is the definition.
(anger is an emotion)
'skinless sausages' is the wordplay.
'skinless' indicates the central letters.
'sausages' becomes 'bangers' (banger can mean a sausage).
The centre of 'bangers' is 'ANGER'.
'may produce' is the link.
(Other definitions for anger that I've seen before include "Wrath, ire" , "Irk" , "Hostile feeling" , "Greatly annoy" , "Wrath, fury" .)