I don't think your summary is accurate. It is more than relieving "the trigger emotion". According to the linked study, there is an ending of the conditioned f

I don't think your summary is accurate. It is more than relieving "the trigger emotion". According to the linked study, there is an ending of the conditioned fear-response itself: "Disrupting reconsolidation of fear memory transformed avoidance behavior into approach behavior in a virtual binary fashion—an effect that persisted at least 1 year after treatment" ... which ending naturally segues into approaching.