For algebro-geometric study of J-stability, a variant of K-stability, we prove a decomposition formula of non-archimedean J -energy of n-dimensional varieties into n-dimensional intersection numbers rather than (n + 1)-dimensional ones, and show the equivalence of slope J H -(semi)stability and J H -(semi)stability for surfaces when H is pseudoeffective. Among other applications, we also give a purely algebro-geometric proof of a uniform K-stability of minimal surfaces due to [23], and provides examples which are J-stable (resp., K-stable) but not uniformly J-stable (resp., uniformly K-stable).