Laybourn et al. (2021) found that when measuring visual working memory (VWM) using the continuous color-report task (CCRT), emotions occur incidentally, i.e., the task itself triggers positive (joy, pride) and negative achievement emotions (frustration, boredom) in participants. The aim of the present study was to explore whether these findings can be generalized to other VWM paradigms, such as the change detection task (CDT). Here participants have to indicate whether a visual display showing colored items has changed. During the CCRT, participants need to recall the exact color of a specific item from a visual display by selecting it from a continuous color wheel. Compared to the CDT, the CCRT may feel more cognitively demanding, potentially eliciting a stronger emotional response from participants due to the increased effort required for precise recall. Thirty-eight (29 female; M_age = 23.6, SD = 7.04) participants performed the CDT containing 240 trials, divided into eight blocks of 30 trials alternating between four or eight colored squares. After each block, participants rated their task-related emotions (joy, pride, anger, frustration, boredom) on a 5-point-Likert scale. Multilevel modelling revealed that joy and pride were significantly positively and anger and frustration were significantly negatively linked with performance. These findings confirm that the achievement emotion-performance links found in Laybourn et al. (2021) can be generalized to other VWM paradigms and further highlights the need for research to consider the role of task-related emotions when measuring cognitive performance across different cognitive tasks.