She’s an empath, I think she empathizes.

It’s not the number of people in the center, it’s the number of people able to enter at one time. Basically, it allows them to ensure that everyone is being clearly identified on entry.

That episode always kinda bothered me, because the universal translator was able to make English phrases out of it, which suggests a base language that would have to exist for the Tamarians themselves to understand their language. Surely, they could have shared some set of learning matirials that they would use to educate their young?