Yes, Lilmos Ulelamaid, you are correct.
Thank you.
Yiras Shamayim should be done with Joy.
I think I mixed up the two, because the “movement” to serve Hashem with Joy these days, often mixes the two concepts.
Love sounds more joyful than Awe or fear, or trepidation. There are songs that seem to mix the two together. Perhaps it is more accurate to say, that often those who are singing and dancing (sometimes in the streets) that it is a mitzvah to always be happy, also seem to be focused on Loving HaShem (whatever that means to them). It just sounds “lighter”.
I was addressing that.
Still you are 100% correct. They are NOT automatically linked. Yiras Shamayim needs to be lived with Joy. That takes a deeper understanding.