It's important to highlight that no existing QM/MM method offers a completely consistent way of polarizing the solvent across every excited state, as discussed in ref . A perturbation approach, though suitable under certain conditions (refer to the Appendix in ref ), doesn't yield results matching those from eq 17 in ref . In the latter, induced dipoles are polarized distinctively in each electronic state. Regardless, our approach to solventinduced dipoles gives a more nuanced depiction of excited states within proteins and solutions.