“She gives a more prissy, forced, tight smile, and this slightly sour smile [is] letting you know the taste of what she is going to have to say is not sweet,” Wood explains. “She says ‘the light of America’s promise will always burn bright’ but with some emotional vocal fry and slight squinting. It’s a great statement, but I would have liked it to be more confidently delivered.”

“As she finishes, she looks down, brows down, and tight lipped, trembling chin, holding back tears,” Wood adds. “She does follow it up with…’As long as we keep fighting’ with a slightly stronger delivery and gesturing with a pointed finger, but her voice breaks.”

While Wood notes that you can ‘see’ Harris’ love when she addresses her husband Douglas Emhoff and their family, she also explains that there is a ‘revealing tell’ when Harris begins talking about President-Elect Donald Trump.

“There is a revealing ‘tell’ when she says, ‘Earlier today I talked to President-Elect Trump’ as she gestures with a downward push motion, symbolically pushing him down as she frowns,” Wood explains.

“The most potent illuminating moment occurs after she makes several strong statements,” she continues. “[Harris] sounds strong, angry and opens her mouth wide with power. Then her eyes flutter briefly showing that she may be hiding even more anger,” with Wood noting that these moments particularly occurred when Harris urged her supporters to keep fighting and to never give up.

“There is a moment where she begins a statement, ‘To the young people who are watching’… You see a mixture of happiness and sadness. She feels both simultaneously,” Wood continues. “She is saying some very motivational things and using the word fight many times. But as she continues to say it, she is no longer mad. Her voice is strong.”

When ending her speech, Harris urged people to mobilize, organize, and stay perseverant even in difficult moments, referencing what she called an old adage: “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

Wood notes that Harris is making a ‘positive statement using the word light’ here, emphasizing that she ‘clearly believes people will need to fight, but her final message was about light.’