Treat the supplied pose as the fully visible middle of the loop; for the starting state, hide the thought-cloud shapes and gear by scaling them to zero at their centers and scale only the head profile to four fifths of its size in the provided SVG, anchored around the lower neck/base. Then scale the head up with eased timing to a small overshoot larger than normal, then settle to the supplied size, hold nearly still, and near the end overshoot slightly again before shrinking back to the reduced plain-head state. The thought-cloud shapes behind the head uniformly scale from their shared center, blooming from zero to full size behind the head, scaling a little smaller around the middle and back to full one time, then collapsing to zero at the end. The gear inside the head remains centered in the temple area, scales up from zero with a slight overshoot, settles, then rotates clockwise around its own center as one rigid cog, completing one full revolution while visible; just before disappearing it briefly enlarges and scales down to nothing. Timing coordination: the thought-cloud shapes start scaling up first, the head begins its scale-up shortly after them, and the gear begins scaling up shortly after the head, so the three pop-in motions overlap and finish in close succession; the gear’s one clockwise revolution starts as the initial pop-in finishes and runs during the middle hold while the thought-cloud shapes perform their single scale pulse; at the end, the gear starts its brief enlargement first, the head’s final overshoot starts just after the gear, and the thought-cloud collapse overlaps both and finishes last. Keep all elements locked to their relative positions, using smooth eased timing and pop-like scale overshoots rather than fades.