In anticipation of the Euclid Wide and Deep Surveys, we present optical
emission-line predictions at intermediate redshifts from 0.4 to 2.5. Our
approach combines a mock light cone from the GAEA semi-analytic model to
self-consistently model nebular emission from HII regions, narrow-line
regions of active galactic nuclei (AGN), and evolved stellar
populations. Our analysis focuses on seven optical emission lines:
H$\alpha$, H$\beta$, [SII]$\lambda\lambda 6717, 6731$, [NII]$\lambda
6584$, [OI]$\lambda 6300$, [OIII]$\lambda 5007$, and
[OII]$\lambda\lambda 3727, 3729$. We find that Euclid will predominantly
observe massive, star-forming, and metal-rich line-emitters.
Interstellar dust, modelled using a Calzetti law with mass-dependent
scaling, may decrease observable percentages by a further 20-30% with
respect to our underlying emission-line populations from GAEA. We
predict Euclid to observe around 30-70% of H$\alpha$-, [NII]-, [SII]-,
and [OIII]-emitting galaxies at redshift below 1 and under 10% at higher
redshift. Observability of H$\beta$-, [OII]-, and [OI]- emission is
limited to below 5%. For the Euclid-observable sample, we find that BPT
diagrams can effectively distinguish between different galaxy types up
to around redshift 1.8, attributed to the bias toward metal-rich
systems. Moreover, we show that the relationships of H$\alpha$ and
[OIII]+H$\beta$ to the star-formation rate, and the [OIII]-AGN
luminosity relation, exhibit minimal changes with increasing redshift.
Based on line ratios [NII]/H$\alpha$, [NII]/[OII], and [NII]/[SII], we
further propose novel z-invariant tracers for the black hole accretion
rate-to-star formation rate ratio. Lastly, we find that commonly used
metallicity estimators display gradual shifts in normalisations with
increasing redshift, while maintaining the overall shape of local
calibrations. This is in tentative agreement with recent JWST data.