maybe this help for reproducing it here on meta:
on the topic list, click on the avatar of topic-creator of this post: “help us test a new composer style”
and click on it again to open his profile in the same page (don’t open it in a new tab), I got something like this:
if I open it in a new tab, I won’t see any likes in the right panel. also it only happens to some particular user profiles, not all.
is there any reason these likes are being hidden in profile pages? they could have been a good initial measure for the value of created discussions.