That's a meaningful distinction indeed, but I personally would use the two terms the other way around. To my understanding, happiness would be the internal one and joy would be the enjoyment caused by particular events.
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you have a point, well words and meanings tend to get jumbled up and we like to "invent" new meanings. I do agree with your statement on the semantics at least.
Well my whole point here was basically semantics, so I'm happy you agree on that :)