the emotion of red — high-arousal threat response
wavelength:: 620-750 nm
evolutionary origin:: fire, blood, thermal injury — death from burn
flushed faces during aggression signal dominance. perceiving red heightens anger responses from ancestral threats like fire or wounds
in prysm
- signals danger, overload, critical failure
- a prysm/counter in anger state: resource depleted, threshold crossed, system under attack
- the strongest warning the interface can give