Interior lights brighter and bloom more than windows?

So I’ve got an interior scene with down-lights according to lumen specifications (3800). Outside is a Vray sun with an intensity multiplier of 1, and a dome light with a multiplier of 1 (using a VraySky map).

The colour float values of the pixels for the downlights are between 200-400 per channel. For outside the window the colour float values are between 2-6. This causes the lens effects to bloom for the interior lights but not for the windows.

This is counter intuitive to me. A photograph of any interior space would presumably produce a bloom around the windows more than the interior lights. Surely something lit by the sun would be brighter than an interior downlight. Am I incorrect in assuming this??

You’re not seeing the sun or sky (directly) through the windows, though, just their lighting on the geo, while you’re seeing the light fixtures directly.
Do you have a reference image you’re trying to match to?

Looks about right on this reference -
https://www.hatchdesign.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/interior-design-with-hatch-kelowna-office-space.jpg

To be honest, I don’t. Which is a bit foolish. Perhaps my intuition here is just way off.