Choosing colours to reflect the eight primary emotion dimensions

When I came across this diagram I realised what it was that drove me to alter the core colours I painted with while at other times I enjoyed the effect of adding the core colours.  Each colour reflected many of the differing inner vibrations the person painted was giving off.  Thus the choice of colours.

I have left what the author has actually written as I could not express the concept any better.
"Author’s three-dimensional circumplex model describes the relations among emotion concepts, which are analogous to the colors on a color wheel. The cone’s vertical dimension represents intensity, and the circle represents degrees of similarity among the emotions. The eight sectors are designed to indicate that there are eight primary emotion dimensions defined by the theory arranged as four pairs of opposites. In the exploded model the emotions in the blank spaces are the primary dyads—emotions that are mixtures of two of the primary emotions. (via The Nature of Emotions)"

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