It may be exactly like you think it is--or it may not be.

Things, I noticed from your post...you said, the T "responded by looking kind of affronted..."

He may have been affronted, or it could have been what you thought you saw...

I was once in a seminar where the speaker had a very intense conversation about 'abuse' with a woman in the row in front of me. Also, in that row was a male friend of mine. I saw agony on my male friend's face. I could tell he was very uncomfortable with the conversation.

The next day, before our seminar began I asked my friend if he'd been really uncomfortable at that conversation. He said, "No, I was quite interested, and wanted to know more about how that kind of confronting is done." I flashed back to the look on his face, that I saw (I can still see it), and realized that this is a classic definition of 'projection.' I was uncomfortable with the abuse conversation. I was in agony. And I projected that onto my friend. What a lesson...

So, may your T was affronted, maybe not.

Maybe him giving you a jasper stone and showing you how the concentric circles in the other one classifies it as agate is just him sharing his knowledge and interest in geology.

I invite you to ask your T about all of this--explore it; and mostly just conclude you don't know what other folks are thinking because it is not telecast across their foreheads...so we tend to fill in the blanks and make up stories about what their expression or words meant...ask your T clarifying questions, then you won't wonder. You'll know...