Emotion associated with the color red (5)

I believe the answer is:

anger

(Other definitions for anger that I've seen before include "Feeling of vexation" , "Heat" , "Hack off" , "wind up?" , "Strongly annoy" .)

I've seen this clue in the USA Today.

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