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That's fair, but I think it's vital to frame it internally as you suspecting that there are deeper emotions at play here. At the end of the day the person in question is the ultimate authority on their emotions. A lot of so called empaths see all the deeper emotions that they want to see and more or less ignore what they don't want or expect to see. Furthermore you're likely rife with false positives.
Like I'm not discounting that people can observe deeper emotions, a good therapist is able to notice them and lead you to them. But people with hypervigilance often are the ones claiming that they're "empaths" (ie see and instinctively feel other people's emotions) and these traits can correlate with the behavior described above.