Well i can attest that because you have He -sit- ate, the chars will sit down, but I have never seen that behavior from any other races in game while RP. It could be due to the stacking up of emote while a character is siting and there is lag, the emotes will not fire up until a point where it does them all one after the other for a while, until the queue is done. But from seeing other elves, humans, half elves, dwarfs etc, use that emote and by mistake sitting down, I have never seen the rest happen.
Could it be also a Dance while running bug? (you see the char run but his arms are flaying around like if it was curing the skies). That one is usually client side, as the others don't see it. It could be your char doing it, or someone else char. Re-login usually fixes that one.