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I've have never heard of "yellow heart" as a medical condition and I can't find any references about it online either, neither in English or Portuguese. Maybe you can link me?
I think the misinterpretation makes the most sense:
Especially considering that none of the other emoji are even trying to do any kind of idiomatic interpretation of their description.
Then again, Android 4 just put random heart related shit in all the heart emoji space so maybe there really was an artist that decided to go off the rails and draw some weird hearts. Either way, they've been corrected now. Whatever experiment Google did with their emoji set, it's now over; there is some room for interpretation, but not so much that it deviates strongly from every other emoji design.
To quote the unicode committee:
Uremic pericarditis, which causes fibrinous pericarditis, presents as a yellow heart with hair-like stuff. The sources are pathology books (check Google Books) and autopsy photos (some are on Google Images, kind of NSFW). It used to be associated with "heroic death". Then "Coração Peludo" got several meanings, so I can imagine someone familiar with those and looking for references of "yellow heart", might've found examples of "hairy heart" and drawn just that.
I'm guessing they tasked a single person with adding the emojis (how hard is it to draw some simple colored shapes, right?), and didn't have anyone review them. They probably were also told not to look at examples from competitors, in case they copied them too closely and got sued for copyright infringement.
As for Unicode... it's a shame person figures can be made of "group type {shape [+ skin tone] [+ gender] [+ hair color]}*n", but they didn't use general color modifiers for the basic shapes. 🐈⬛