I didn't feel emotions at that point.

[He looks down, frowning.]

I was still influenced by my programming. Becoming a deviant means breaking free of that, and I hadn't done that yet. I was created to hunt deviants. To bring them back to CyberLife so that they could be dismantled and investigated for faults. I was under the impression that their emotions were simply errors in their software. I didn't... know.

[It's obvious he has regrets now, but at the time he'd been nothing more than machine, performing a task.]