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> Your "relationship scale" is just as much headcanon as anything else said in the comments. We have no show canon for their relationship besides #1 assistant the rest is just inferring things ergo headcanon.
You do understand that you can actually
It's not head-canoning things at all. It is **directly observable** behavior in the show. Hence, her actions and reactions to him vary up and down on that scale depending on the episode. And that is the key point here, how she *acts*. We've got plenty of example of both ends.