diff --git a/contracts/reflect/schema/raw/response_to_sub_msg_result.json b/contracts/reflect/schema/raw/response_to_sub_msg_result.json
index fa421b99f..3cdcf41dd 100644
--- a/contracts/reflect/schema/raw/response_to_sub_msg_result.json
+++ b/contracts/reflect/schema/raw/response_to_sub_msg_result.json
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
       "additionalProperties": false
     },
     "SubMsgResponse": {
-      "description": "The information we get back from a successful sub message execution, with full Cosmos SDK events.",
+      "description": "The information we get back from a successful sub message execution",
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
         "events"
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@
           ]
         },
         "events": {
+          "description": "The Cosmos SDK events emitted by the submessage.\n\nThis is only filled if the submessage was itself a [`crate::WasmMsg`]. The reason for this is that events are [not part of consensus] and therefore not guaranteed to be deterministic, so the VM only returns events of wasm messages, which we know are deterministic.\n\n[not part of consensus]: https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/eed27addecb339cfaeba8fda774e6ab37cdb3774/spec/abci/abci.md#events",
           "type": "array",
           "items": {
             "$ref": "#/definitions/Event"
diff --git a/contracts/reflect/schema/reflect.json b/contracts/reflect/schema/reflect.json
index 7d5993456..9a4c0e536 100644
--- a/contracts/reflect/schema/reflect.json
+++ b/contracts/reflect/schema/reflect.json
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@
           "additionalProperties": false
         },
         "SubMsgResponse": {
-          "description": "The information we get back from a successful sub message execution, with full Cosmos SDK events.",
+          "description": "The information we get back from a successful sub message execution",
           "type": "object",
           "required": [
             "events"
@@ -2313,6 +2313,7 @@
               ]
             },
             "events": {
+              "description": "The Cosmos SDK events emitted by the submessage.\n\nThis is only filled if the submessage was itself a [`crate::WasmMsg`]. The reason for this is that events are [not part of consensus] and therefore not guaranteed to be deterministic, so the VM only returns events of wasm messages, which we know are deterministic.\n\n[not part of consensus]: https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/eed27addecb339cfaeba8fda774e6ab37cdb3774/spec/abci/abci.md#events",
               "type": "array",
               "items": {
                 "$ref": "#/definitions/Event"
diff --git a/packages/std/src/results/submessages.rs b/packages/std/src/results/submessages.rs
index d3b9175d7..8a1c5221c 100644
--- a/packages/std/src/results/submessages.rs
+++ b/packages/std/src/results/submessages.rs
@@ -280,10 +280,16 @@ impl From<SubMsgResult> for Result<SubMsgResponse, String> {
     }
 }
 
-/// The information we get back from a successful sub message execution,
-/// with full Cosmos SDK events.
+/// The information we get back from a successful sub message execution
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, JsonSchema)]
 pub struct SubMsgResponse {
+    /// The Cosmos SDK events emitted by the submessage.
+    ///
+    /// This is only filled if the submessage was itself a [`crate::WasmMsg`].
+    /// The reason for this is that events are [not part of consensus] and therefore not guaranteed to be deterministic,
+    /// so the VM only returns events of wasm messages, which we know are deterministic.
+    ///
+    /// [not part of consensus]: https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/eed27addecb339cfaeba8fda774e6ab37cdb3774/spec/abci/abci.md#events
     pub events: Vec<Event>,
     #[deprecated = "Deprecated in the Cosmos SDK in favor of msg_responses. If your chain is running on CosmWasm 2.0 or higher, msg_responses will be filled. For older versions, the data field is still needed since msg_responses is empty in those cases."]
     pub data: Option<Binary>,