The Nine Passions:
full meaning, not secret definitions.

State: A moment of anger, irritation, or indignation at something wrong.
Pattern: Repeated correction, resentment, or self-control around perceived errors.
Structure: Discrepancy is chronically high-what stands out and corrective pressure becomes a default way of restoring fit.

False positives: high standards required by a profession; temporary anger at injustice; conscientiousness without chronic corrective pressure.
False negatives: a polite or restrained person whose anger appears mainly as resentment; a self-critical One whose hostility is directed inward; a reformer who experiences correction as duty rather than “anger”.

Paths discrepancy and corrective pressure toward body, home, maintenance, resources, procedure, and practical standards: what is safe, clean, responsible, maintained, or properly managed.

Paths discrepancy toward norms, ethics, role, fairness, institutions, group procedure, and what people should contribute or uphold.

Paths discrepancy into charged one-to-one contact: standards for honesty, integrity, intensity, commitment, attraction, or what the bond should become.

Makes error, mismatch, right/wrong, and unrealized improvement more salient in whatever another type is doing.

Adds correction, restraint, principled opposition, or standard-setting to another type’s motive.

Attempts to restore fit or right order.

State: A moment of pride, superiority, entitlement, or satisfaction in being valued.
Pattern: Repeated self-elevation through giving, desirability, insight, goodness, or importance.
Structure: Relational value becomes a central organizing field and self-worth is repeatedly established through an enlarged relational self-image.

False positives: caregiving or empathy without self-elevation; helping because of duty, loyalty, or conflict avoidance; warmth that does not depend on being special or needed.
False negatives: a reserved or self-contained Two whose pride appears as “I need nothing”; a humble presentation that still assumes unusual relational insight or importance; a person who gives selectively but expects relational privilege from those selected.

Paths relational value through care, comfort, protection, practical giving/receiving, home, body, and resource support: being worth caring for or being the one who cares.

Paths pride toward contribution, role, recognition, network, influence, social usefulness, and being important to the group or its people.

Paths pride toward desirability, attraction, special access, emotional importance, seduction, and being uniquely wanted by a particular other.

Makes relational value, need, affection, desirability, and importance more salient.

Adds attunement, involvement, helpfulness, seduction, personalization, or value-through-relationship to another type’s motive.

Attempts to secure mutual value and significance.

State: A moment of vanity, self-presentation, competition, or concern with recognition.
Pattern: Repeated adaptation of performance or image to establish value.
Structure: Socially legible value becomes a default organizing field and identity increasingly merges with what can be demonstrated or admired.

False positives: ambition for intrinsic mastery; competitive sport or work demands; good grooming without identity investment in image.
False negatives: an anti-status Three who performs authenticity or outsider credibility; a service-oriented Three whose admired image is competence or goodness rather than glamour; a highly factual person whose deceit is self-identification rather than lying.

Paths image-value toward competence, work, provision, security, stamina, practical effectiveness, and being the person who can make life function.

Paths image-value toward role, status, public competence, contribution, reputation, achievement, and the standards by which a group recognizes value.

Paths image-value toward attractiveness, desirability, chemistry, relational performance, and becoming the person who embodies what a chosen other or audience values.

Makes visible value, results, audience, standards of success, and presentation more salient.

Adds adaptation, optimization, performance, packaging, or result-orientation to another type’s motive.

Attempts to make value demonstrable and recognizable.

State: A moment of envy, jealousy, longing, or painful comparison.
Pattern: Repeated idealization of what is absent and devaluation of what is present.
Structure: Difference is chronically interpreted through the field of lack, making the valued good “elsewhere” unusually organizing.

False positives: sadness or artistic sensitivity without comparative lack; ordinary jealousy in a specific relationship; strong individuality without idealization of absence.
False negatives: a cheerful Four whose envy is mostly idealization rather than resentment; a person with Four influence who genuinely celebrates others yet still organizes around missing qualities elsewhere; a subtle self-deficiency pattern without conscious jealousy.

Paths lack and differentiation toward security, endurance, body, home, resources, self-sufficiency, and comparison around who can withstand or possess what is needed.

Paths envy/lack toward belonging, status, recognition, comparison with peers, social place, and the valued qualities that seem easier or more available to others.

Paths lack toward charged one-to-one comparison, attraction, rivalry, idealization, possession, and the qualities perceived as living in the desired or competing other.

Makes difference, missingness, particularity, symbolic meaning, and the idealized elsewhere more salient.

Adds comparison, differentiation, longing, personal meaning, or identity depth to another type’s motive.

Attempts to recover valued goodness or particularity without becoming ordinary or deficient.

State: A moment of stinginess, possessiveness, withholding, or reluctance to spend.
Pattern: Repeated conservation of time, energy, information, access, or resources under expected depletion.
Structure: Scarcity/depletion and boundary cost become default organizing fields, making retention a recurrent solution.

False positives: introversion alone; a knowledge-intensive profession; financial frugality without broader withholding; privacy that does not arise from anticipated depletion.
False negatives: a socially skilled Five who remains highly proprietary about time and inner access; a materially generous Five who hoards knowledge, privacy, attention, or autonomy; an active Five whose preparation and compartmentalization carry the avarice.

Paths avarice most visibly toward time, energy, privacy, space, money, home, body, maintenance, and control over practical demands and access.

Paths avarice toward knowledge, expertise, role, intellectual contribution, group access, specialized value, and conserving or accumulating what grants a competent niche.

Paths avarice toward selective one-to-one access, secrets, total trust, intense private interests, and the tension between deep disclosure and protecting an inner chamber.

Makes cost, scarcity, demand, boundary, resource, and hidden structure more salient.

Adds observation, modeling, compartmentalization, conservation, withholding, or selective release to another type’s motive.

Attempts to preserve sufficiency and autonomy.

State: A moment of fear, anxiety, doubt, suspicion, or defensive confrontation.
Pattern: Repeated scanning, checking, testing, reassurance, skepticism, alliance-building, or counterphobia around possible danger.
Structure: Danger/reliability is chronically high-what stands out and confidence must repeatedly be established before commitment feels safe enough.

False positives: professional compliance or risk checking; healthy skepticism about a genuinely unreliable source; temporary anxiety after a real threat.
False negatives: a counterphobic Six who appears fearless or aggressive; a confident authority-challenger whose attention is still organized around threat and reliability; a loyal Six whose scanning is mostly relational rather than visibly anxious.

Paths danger-detection toward concrete safety, body, health, home, money, supplies, contingency, practical support, and whether material footing will hold.

Paths danger/reliability toward authority, rules, group expectations, status, alliances, duty, institutions, belonging, and whether the social structure is trustworthy.

Paths danger/reliability into charged one-to-one testing: loyalty, betrayal, attraction, strength, intimidation, protection, and whether the bond can survive threat or confrontation.

Makes danger, reliability, contradiction, authority, alliance, and failure modes more salient.

Adds verification, testing, contingency planning, skepticism, loyalty-checking, or counterphobic force to another type’s motive.

Attempts to establish trustworthy enough footing for action.

State: A moment of overindulgence, novelty-seeking, reframing, or wanting more.
Pattern: Repeated multiplication of options and future nourishment when limitation or insufficiency is felt.
Structure: Possibility/pleasure is chronically high-what stands out and open appetite becomes a default solution to deprivation and confinement.

False positives: being cheerful or extroverted; loving travel or novelty without avoidance of sufficiency; creative brainstorming required by work.
False negatives: a serious or intellectual Seven whose gluttony is ideas, knowledge, projects, or conceptual possibility; a disciplined Seven who still keeps psychological exits and future options open; a quiet Seven whose appetite is mostly internal planning.

Paths gluttonous appetite toward comforts, experiences, resources, plans, purchases, food/drink, travel, practical options, and keeping enough future nourishment available.

Paths appetite toward networks, ideas, opportunities, events, contribution, social possibility, recognition, and the next stimulating opening in the group field.

Paths appetite toward fascination, attraction, chemistry, intensity, idealized possibility, novelty in the bond, and the charged future that a person or experience seems to promise.

Makes options, possibility, novelty, future reward, and limitation more salient.

Adds expansion, reframing, alternatives, stimulation, planning, or optionality to another type’s motive.

Attempts to restore access to nourishment and freedom of possibility.

State: A moment of lust, strong desire, dominance, confrontation, or appetite for intensity.
Pattern: Repeated escalation of force, sensation, control, or impact when constraint or vulnerability is activated.
Structure: Agency/power is chronically high-what stands out and intensity becomes a default way to secure aliveness and prevent powerlessness.

False positives: ordinary assertiveness or leadership; anger without appetite for force/intensity; protective behavior that does not organize identity around agency.
False negatives: a quiet Eight whose intensity is contained rather than loud; a restrained Eight with hard autonomy and strong boundary rather than overt aggression; an Eight whose lust is work, risk, impact, competition, or control more than sexuality.

Paths lust/force toward territory, body, material control, resources, survival, protection, practical sovereignty, and preventing dependence or intrusion.

Paths force toward group power, justice, protection, leadership, hierarchy, loyalty, collective impact, and who is strong enough to defend or direct the field.

Paths lust toward one-to-one intensity, attraction, possession, polarity, confrontation, fusion, testing, and the wish for unrestricted contact with what is strongly wanted.

Makes power, resistance, agency, vulnerability, control, and impact more salient.

Adds assertion, force, boundary, escalation, protection, or confrontation to another type’s motive.

Attempts to restore agency and unrestricted capacity to act.

State: A moment of laziness, postponement, numbness, accommodation, or loss of one’s own priority.
Pattern: Repeated deferral of self-mobilization through routine, comfort, merger, distraction, or low-friction accommodation.
Structure: Continuity and non-disruption are chronically high-what stands out while inner priority and differentiation repeatedly lose mobilizing force.

False positives: ordinary tiredness or procrastination; being calm or agreeable; conflict avoidance taught by culture or circumstance.
False negatives: a very busy Nine whose activity serves everyone or everything except the central personal issue; a productive Nine organized by routine rather than inner priority; an assertive Nine whose self-forgetting occurs through merger with a cause, family, role, or environment.

Paths sloth/acedia toward comfort, routine, body, home, food, sleep, maintenance, familiar rhythms, and practical activity that can preserve continuity without deeper mobilization.

Paths inertia/merger toward belonging, participation, role, group harmony, contribution, shared agenda, and maintaining one’s place by carrying what the field needs.

Paths merger toward one-to-one fusion, partner priority, shared rhythm, absorption in the bond, and difficulty preserving a distinct agenda while maintaining closeness.

Makes the whole field, continuity, common ground, competing priorities, and disruption more salient.

Adds integration, accommodation, softening, diffusion, continuity, or deferral to another type’s motive.

Attempts to preserve connection and reduce disruptive friction.