Adrian, you've got it! All these ideas passing through your mind are ideas in the method. Being able to identify implied emotion while listening, and helping a person unfold it--or deciding not to--is a part of the skillset of a deep listener. Identifying these three types of interior cognition concepts in a transcript is part of the first step of empirical qual data synthesis. You're on exactly the right track! :D
I've recently written a third book which is a deep dive into listening, and I've created a two-part online course that teaches the two steps of empirical qual data synthesis. (Goal: let the people's thinking emerge, rather than categorize it from a researcher's point of view.) If you're interested in these, I'm about to run another Live Practice cohort for the third course in July-ish 2023.
