Thinking Orb
A breathing orb reads as thinking; a spinner reads as loading.
Usage
Meant for
Examples
On a Chat Message
Two conic layers turning at different speeds, each breathing on its own timer — in the avatar slot of a message that is still being thought about. Not a spinner: nothing about it implies a percentage, which is the honest thing to show while a model is reasoning.
Thinking about your question…
The class is wm wm-thinking-orb — the first half is the marker the trigger and reduced-motion rules hook into, the second is the effect.