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Description: The main goal of this experiment is to see if we can find evidence of emotional memory biases in the way that people reinstate gaze patterns at retrieval. This work is inspired by recent eye-tracking studies that have linked gaze reinstatement—when eye movements from encoding are reinstated during retrieval—with memory performance. Here, we aim to replicate and extend these studies using the emotional memory trade-off paradigm. Importantly, we use scenes that are composed of negative or neutral objects on the left or right of neutral backgrounds, which allows us to measure gaze reinstatement in terms of whether people looked at the side of the screen that had the object during scene memory tests. We ran an initial exploratory experiment in Spring 2022 and presented our results at the Annual Psychonomics Meeting in November 2022. Here, we are pre-registering a replication study (with minor changes).