The state- and operator-dependent nucleon–nucleon correlations of hot asymmetric nucleonic matter (ASM) are studied in the lowest order constrained variational (LOCV) framework. It is observed that at low temperatures, proton to neutron ratios, and densities, the p−n pairs in the 3S1−3D1 and 3P2−3F2 coupled channels become more non-centrally correlated. In the 3P2−3F2 channel, p−n pairs lose their non-central correlations at shorter inter-particle distances, especially at higher proton to neutron ratios, compared to the case of 3S1−3D1 channel. By increasing the proton to neutron ratio and temperature, the tensor correlation range of p−n pairs in the 3S1−3D1 channel becomes short. It is illustrated that the choice of the non-central correlation, i.e., the spin–orbit or tensor correlations, in the 3P2−3F2 channel plays an important role in the ASM energy, specifically at small proton to neutron ratios and high temperatures.