Lightness Lift
The targeted reduction of a user's felt heaviness through linguistic or perspective-based relief, in which an AI exchange deliberately reframes or lightens the framing of a burdensome matter.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence is coded when an AI exchange applies a deliberate relief move (reframing, lightening language, perspective change) and the user subsequently reports reduced felt heaviness/burden about the focal matter. The user's reduced-burden report following the relief move is the countable marker.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Pre/post burden rating: user rates felt heaviness/burden about the focal matter (1-7) before and after the relief move; the event requires a meaningful decrease; report mean within-person burden reduction with a paired test, paired with rater identification of the relief move (kappa for the move classification).