Type of emotion depends on the self guide used with ideal self discrepancies leading to low arousal emotions such as sadness and ought self discrepancies leading to higher arousal emotions such as guilt and anxiety. Multiple components of the self, which may vary in evaluation. Some components may receive more positive evaluations than others. After a while returns to baseline. However, recently individual differences have been studied in how much different people's self esteem fluctuates.
Some people have greater fluctuations, other people have relatively small ones.
Kernis, et al. People with stable low SE more likely depressed. Kernis, et al. People with high unstable self esteem more hostile and angry. These people are both egotistic and insecure.