The word 'delight' may be perceived as more positive and less effortful than 'gratitude'.

“I love the word delight more than gratitude gratitude sounds cheesy it sounds a little hippie dippy I got to say yeah well I'm from Northern California so I'm cool with hippie dippy even though I'm not a hippie punk rocker not a Hipp you're Berkeley rud c yeah I know I'm from the other end of the B the peninsula I love I love the anyway this is getting but the point is um it's not that the word feels soft I need to think about this a little bit more it's that um maybe it's just that Delight is such a powerful unselfish word”