Darktable: how to set warmer tones in cut highlights?

You may find some insight in this topic: Dealing with yellow color shift

It’s pretty lengthy and technical but you might get some insight about why those yellow/orange colors aren’t coming out right.

Are you using filmic or sigmoid? You might want to try sigmoid, maybe using the smooth preset, and see how that works for you. I think the new (coming soon) AgX tone mapper handles this issue really well.