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align up to 4w2
Wings are adjacent to your basic personality type.
So a 4 can have a wing of either 3 or 5 (some believe, as I do, that you are actually both wings but one is more dominant than the other. My 8w7 is certainly looking more and more like 8w9 as I age. I'm getting more mellow, and giving less shits about what other's think of me haha)
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(my type 8 is leaning towards type 2 [helpful], so I hope this helps you lol)
This site and page is a good resource: How The System Works
It does a good job explaining the centers (instinctive, feeling, or thinking), the dominant emotion of each center (anger, shame, fear), the lines of integration and disintegration (growth and stress), and how the wings play a part in your overall personality.
Maybe it will help to study each of the centers, and each of the dominant emotions to find which one matches you. You can then rule out each center that doesn't fit (for example, since you tested 6,4,2 then instinctive center is probably not yours, nor is the dominant emotion of anger)
Just don't get married to one type and convince yourself that's what you are. No one type is better than the others by any means.
I hired an Enneagram coach many years ago, and it still took months for me to figure it all out (and it's really a life long process, I won't quit learning about myself until I'm dead. After all, we change during the years too)