Can emotion exist without life?

If emotions did not exist before the creation/evolution of life as we know it! Why would emotions evolve?
Can you talk of emotions like fear, anger or love and happiness, as existing from a time before creation? Or before evolution had produced, life forms as complex as walking, seeing, feeling creatures like ourselves.... without ever mentioning god? Scientist do all the time. Evolution "wanted" this "desired" that. Evolution was such a powder Keg of emotions, it surprising that god didn't evolve before humans did.
Or is it simply the way our words have evolved, in order to describe our present reality, using words such as god, in describing the given scenario here proposed? Can you talk of fear from that time period? Without mentioning the devil? Fear, the devil, pain, suffering, these emotions should not be in control of our actions. Or control our course of life.
What came first? Pain, driving us away from itself, and hence towards pleasure? Or did pleasure come first? Increasing to such intensity that we wanted to escape that intensity and remember to go back to that lack of such intense pleasure, what we had before?
What rules us? Should it not be love, happiness and all the good things that drive us forward? Driving us towards them. Or should we let pain be the one who is chasing us from behind trying to catch up with us as we run away? It is all in the description, in the telling of the story. Was god born in hell to create heaven? Or was Joy all that god ever new till it became too painful to experience joy all by himself? Did he just want to create new life simply for something to do? Or to share the wonder and amazing pleasure that life brought him? Was he lonely or just finding his next thing to do? This is the real question. Joked about by Douglas Adams in Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. The big question of "life the universe and everything." The answer being said to be 42 raised the question "what is the actual question?" And it is ...WHY?
WHY did the Y chromosomes form? Why does DNA remember so much? Why did it bother?
What or who is the great Be Cause of scientific effect? What can explain WHY "I AM?" Why does life even exist at all, so it can ask this question?
The Hebrew word "Ehyeh" translated "I shall be," Is "The One" who wants to be that cause. Some scholars state the Tetragrammaton itself derives from the same verbal root as "Ehyeh" Remember it reads backwards H-WHY=I am BE CAUSE.
It appears the universe worked out the answers long before we did, why? Because!!. But everybody has to learn sometime.