"Repress their emotions" .. Here we go again. While I like your thread title, I think Ts don't feel as convicted by feelings of right/wrong or appropriate/inappropriate . In Typology, Feeling is different from emotion. (Emotions = sadness, happiness, joy, irritability, etc) . I don't repress my emotions . I'm very emotional but I do try to analyze them.
Look , any human who denies emotion is either a real life bot or a wannabe bot. Emotions don't ONLY mean crying or sadness, either. Unless you dead ass walk around with a damn poker face the majority of the time .. you, (genarlized, "you") , don't repress emotion but only a feeling function.
Ts repress either of the bottom two in favor of T logical systems. It doesn't require that any of us "repress emotion" only feeling. Only the Fi users might not
express happy/overjoyous ones as much. (They're still human)..
Fi - subjective convictions of right/wrong, subjective mood
Or
Fe - objective appropriateness /objective mood
The below picture is an example of emotions/emotional expression!
Anybody who think Ts are less/more emotional are basing things on ignorance. As far as compassion goes, I can see Ts being less compassionate because we look to justice before mercy. If the facts/truth/logic points to harsh consequences or supports what some may call harsh, I'm not going to budge.
A thinking type can cry over a mom's jail sentencing and be sad while agreeing with the jail sentence and actually testifying against the mother. Emotions are just...there. They cannot be helped upon first glance but can be analyzed or gotten over rather quickly.