Observing other people's emotions and repeating it is Fe; but true empathy is expressing your own emotions about what you felt. I believe what she did in that thread was not include her feelings but tried to tell everyone how things/emotions of the atmosphere was going.
Ooh, the True Empathy... Do you have a trademark on it yet?
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