LR 3 Highlight Clipping Warning Triangle Colors

A friend of mine has seen the colors of the highlight and black clipping warning triangles in the LR3 histogram panel change color to cyan (pink) and yellow but doesn't know what these are indicating.
I tried to replicate this in LR4 but only saw (what looks like) pink (but may be red), blue and green.
Does anyone know what the yellow and pink triangles mean?
Thanks,
Stephen

JimHess wrote:
Red and blue are the only two colors that the clipping indicator will show on the picture. I don't know where you would be seeing a green overlay.
In the two triangles themselves. And in the picture itself when holding down the Alt key while changing exposure etc.
E.g. crop a small green patch out of a picture, increase the saturation, so a clear green peak appears in the histogram, then increase the exposure. The moment the green peak touches the right border of the histogram, the right triangle turns green (best seen in PV2010 because PV2012 does automatic highlight recovery). As soon as e.g. the red peak follows, the triangle turns yellow. Only if all three colors touch the right border, the trangle turns white.
The same colors appear in the affected image areas if the slider is changes with the Alt key held down.
Edit: Screenshot of histogram with green peak touching right border:

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