Thankyou for your interest in the topic, to quote "There was significant overlap between general intelligence and emotional intelligence, both in behavioral measures and brain activity. Higher scores on general intelligence tests and personality reliably predicted higher performance on measures of emotional intelligence, and many of the same brain regions (in the frontal and parietal cortices) were found to be important to both".
source: ww.memory-key.com/research/news/correlation-between-emotional-intelligence-and-iq