diff --git a/packages/synapse-react-client/src/components/SynapseChat/SynapseChat.tsx b/packages/synapse-react-client/src/components/SynapseChat/SynapseChat.tsx
index 43a08da36f..0488966ff6 100644
--- a/packages/synapse-react-client/src/components/SynapseChat/SynapseChat.tsx
+++ b/packages/synapse-react-client/src/components/SynapseChat/SynapseChat.tsx
@@ -310,7 +310,9 @@ export const SynapseChat: React.FunctionComponent<SynapseChatProps> = ({
                           placement="bottom"
                           title={
                             <div style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}>
-                              <Typography>Initializing...</Typography>
+                              {allTraceEvents.length == 0 && (
+                                <Typography>Initializing...</Typography>
+                              )}
                               {allTraceEvents.map((event, index) => {
                                 return (
                                   <Typography key={`${index}-${event.message}`}>
diff --git a/packages/synapse-react-client/src/mocks/chat/mockChat.ts b/packages/synapse-react-client/src/mocks/chat/mockChat.ts
index f2b24b0ac5..8fe983f50d 100644
--- a/packages/synapse-react-client/src/mocks/chat/mockChat.ts
+++ b/packages/synapse-react-client/src/mocks/chat/mockChat.ts
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ export const mockTraceEventsResponse3: TraceEventsResponse = {
   page: [
     {
       timestamp: 1695567800, // Example timestamp (in seconds)
-      message: 'Combining search results and entity metadata',
+      message:
+        '<thinking>The metadata shows that the entity with ID syn9602623 is a Synapse project named "SearchIntegrationTest.Projecte475c6e8-414a-4842-b876-bf8232ce05d0". Its description contains the search term "e7b33c3a-2392-4ce7-a357-efa4612e4a41". The metadata ...',
     },
   ],
 }