Node Question: Is there a way to matte the lightspot+glow, onto a character?

I have a layer with a character.

Above this character layer, I will put the lightspot node, which connects to the glow node, which connects to XSheet. Result:

However, I want the character to look exactly as I have it (affected by the lightspot+glow), but remove the bright circle itself.

I tried putting a matte like this:

But unfortunately, the result is this:

You can see that the glow gets matted onto the character as intended, but why does the character turn black?

Is there a way to do what I'm intending?