Your fellow humans empathy is a language trick. Deal with it. 😉

FWIW computational models of empathy have been studied for decades. Here are a couple of surveys:

• https://eclass.hmu.gr/modules/document/file.php/ECE224/Assignments/1st Assignment/Literature/2017 - Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots - A Survey.pdf (start at page 14)
• https://w.sentic.net/empathetic-dialogue-systems.pdf
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.05017