Self-Conscious Emotions

 As my character is a child, it is very common during childhood to experience self-conscious emotions. Self-conscious emotions can end up spring-boarding feelings such as of guilt, shame, and embarrassment. One such example of when Louise Belcher exhibits self-conscious emotions is when her classmate, Chloe Barbash, calls her a "baby" because she always wears her bunny ears hat to school. This causes her to feel  the need to defend her pride, and immediately launches her into defense mode, asking her classmate what she said. If her siblings had not been holding her back, she likely would've attacked the girl in effort to prove herself and keep her pride. This self-conscious emotion of "pride" was caused by her appraisal of the situation seeing her peer call her a "baby" and the hat being attributed to this quality, and she then feels the need to prove to others that she is not a "baby." She feels the self-conscious emotion of "pride" and the need to defend her pride because she sees her signature bunny ears hat as part of her identity as a person, and so when anyone attacks or says anything negative about her hat, she takes it as a personal slight against her character. 

She does not exhibit the self-conscious emotion of "embarrassment" or "shame" because she is not embarrassed or ashamed of who she is or her bunny ears hat. This is evidenced by the fact that she never takes the hat off. Throughout this character arc, she doubles down on proving how she is not a "baby" to Chloe, specifically by working to solve a crime that has happened in the town and to help save her family's restaurant. She feels prideful because she feels that her identity is being tested and criticized, which causes her to become defensive and feel the need to prove herself and the validity of her identity (that she is not a baby). She also expresses an open dislike and distrust of Chloe, and is visibly annoyed whenever Chloe is present.