Yes, the manager’s sheen. No matter how you’re feeling you should always strive to exude and instill positive energy into any interaction you have with the team.

Actually, most of my managers have dragged their asses behind low hanging blue jeans and shown overt contempt for the brand and any form of idealism; at one company I learned 'initiative is punishable' -- they seem to squirrel themselves into a cozy position with a director and the 'sheen' you describe is more of a greasy film to which on accountability can ever stick