diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/LayerDisclosureRow.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/LayerDisclosureRow.tsx
index 1dc27408d..718b8e127 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/player/components/LayerDisclosureRow.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/LayerDisclosureRow.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import { TRACK_H } from "./timelineLayout";
 import { TrackClipCount } from "./TrackClipCount";
 
-// Layer row (Figma order: disclosure ∿, diamond, name) — the disclosure lives
+// Layer row (diamond, name, then the ∿ disclosure on the right edge) — the
+// disclosure lives
 // here, not on the clip bar, and re-expands a collapsed layer. `∿` (not a
 // caret) because a group's own row keeps the caret for its structural
 // disclosure (member rows) — this button only ever means "show this row's
@@ -45,27 +46,6 @@ export function LayerDisclosureRow({
         background: gutterBackground,
       }}
     >
-      <button
-        type="button"
-        // ponytail: No focus id here; keyboard routing belongs to the enclosing logical row.
-        tabIndex={-1}
-        aria-expanded={isExpanded}
-        aria-controls={lanesId}
-        aria-label={`${isExpanded ? "Hide" : "Show"} ${name} lanes`}
-        title={`${isExpanded ? "Hide" : "Show"} lanes`}
-        // h-6 w-6 = the 24x24 WCAG 2.2 minimum target. The glyph stays 11px;
-        // only the hit box grows.
-        className={`flex h-6 w-6 shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded border-0 bg-transparent p-0 text-[11px] leading-none focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-1 focus-visible:outline-[#3CE6AC] ${
-          isExpanded ? "text-[#3CE6AC]" : "text-white/55 hover:text-white"
-        }`}
-        onPointerDown={(event) => event.stopPropagation()}
-        onClick={(event) => {
-          event.stopPropagation();
-          onToggleClipExpanded();
-        }}
-      >
-        <span aria-hidden="true">∿</span>
-      </button>
       {/* Decorative: the disclosure button above already names the row's keyframe
           state, and aria-label on a plain span is not exposed reliably anyway. */}
       <span aria-hidden="true" className="shrink-0 text-[13px] leading-none text-white/40">
@@ -76,6 +56,31 @@ export function LayerDisclosureRow({
       </span>
       <TrackClipCount clipCount={clipCount} />
       {children}
+      {/* Anchored right, on every header that has one: the lane toggle is the
+          row's last word about itself, and a left-hand ∿ put it where the eye
+          looks for identity instead. `ml-auto` rather than a spacer so it holds
+          the edge whatever else the row grows. */}
+      <button
+        type="button"
+        // ponytail: No focus id here; keyboard routing belongs to the enclosing logical row.
+        tabIndex={-1}
+        aria-expanded={isExpanded}
+        aria-controls={lanesId}
+        aria-label={`${isExpanded ? "Hide" : "Show"} ${name} lanes`}
+        title={`${isExpanded ? "Hide" : "Show"} lanes`}
+        // h-6 w-6 = the 24x24 WCAG 2.2 minimum target. The glyph stays 11px;
+        // only the hit box grows.
+        className={`ml-auto flex h-6 w-6 shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded border-0 bg-transparent p-0 text-[11px] leading-none focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-1 focus-visible:outline-[#3CE6AC] ${
+          isExpanded ? "text-[#3CE6AC]" : "text-white/55 hover:text-white"
+        }`}
+        onPointerDown={(event) => event.stopPropagation()}
+        onClick={(event) => {
+          event.stopPropagation();
+          onToggleClipExpanded();
+        }}
+      >
+        <span aria-hidden="true">∿</span>
+      </button>
     </div>
   );
 }
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupHeader.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupHeader.tsx
index ebf68d91c..0f815eb6f 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupHeader.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupHeader.tsx
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ export function TimelineGroupHeader({
       </div>
       {/* Line two: what you can DO to it. Its own row so the name is not
           squeezed to a few characters by five controls sharing 232px. */}
-      <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5">
+      <div className="flex w-full items-center gap-1.5">
         <TimelineFxButton
           fxChainRaw={fxChain}
           onChainChange={onFxChainChange}
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ export function TimelineGroupHeader({
           aria-expanded={isLaneOpen}
           aria-label={`${isLaneOpen ? "Hide" : "Show"} ${label} lanes`}
           title={`${isLaneOpen ? "Hide" : "Show"} lanes`}
-          className={`flex h-6 items-center justify-center gap-0.5 rounded border-0 bg-transparent px-1 text-[11px] leading-none focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-1 focus-visible:outline-[#3CE6AC] ${
+          // Anchored right, matching every other header's lane toggle.
+          className={`ml-auto flex h-6 items-center justify-center gap-0.5 rounded border-0 bg-transparent px-1 text-[11px] leading-none focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-1 focus-visible:outline-[#3CE6AC] ${
             isLaneOpen ? "text-[#3CE6AC]" : "text-white/55 hover:text-white"
           }`}
           onPointerDown={(event) => event.stopPropagation()}
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.test.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.test.tsx
index 63474aadf..845f8a27d 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.test.tsx
@@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ describe("TimelineTrackHeader", () => {
 
       expect(header()?.style.paddingLeft).toBe("");
       expect(header()?.style.borderLeft).toBe("");
+      expect(header()?.style.background).not.toContain("linear-gradient");
 
       view.rerender({
         keyframeClip: VOICE,
@@ -781,6 +782,10 @@ describe("TimelineTrackHeader", () => {
       });
       expect(header()?.style.paddingLeft).toBe("14px");
       expect(header()?.style.borderLeft).toContain("2px");
+      // And a lighter gutter, so the row reads as sitting INSIDE its group
+      // rather than beside it. Overlaid on the theme's own fill rather than a
+      // hard-coded colour, so it follows whatever the gutter is.
+      expect(header()?.style.background).toContain("linear-gradient");
       act(() => view.root.unmount());
     });
 
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.tsx
index 67153ab52..99bf6571f 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.tsx
@@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ import { timelineLogicalRowCellId, timelinePropertyRowId } from "./timelineNavig
  *  nesting its `aria-level` already reports. */
 const GROUP_MEMBER_RAIL = "#3CE6AC59";
 const GROUP_MEMBER_INDENT = 14;
+/** A hair lighter than `gutterBackground`, so a member row reads as sitting
+ *  INSIDE its group rather than beside it. Overlaid rather than hard-coded so
+ *  it tracks whatever the theme's gutter is. */
+const GROUP_MEMBER_TINT = "rgba(255,255,255,0.035)";
+
+/** The gutter fill for a row, tinted when it belongs to a group. */
+function gutterFill(base: string, isGroupMember: boolean): string {
+  return isGroupMember
+    ? `linear-gradient(${GROUP_MEMBER_TINT}, ${GROUP_MEMBER_TINT}), ${base}`
+    : base;
+}
 
 interface TimelineTrackHeaderProps {
   /** The track's real key: a FRACTIONAL z-order sort value. Routes callbacks;
@@ -489,7 +500,7 @@ export function TimelineTrackHeader({
       }`}
       style={{
         width: showTrackLabel ? LABEL_COL_W : contentOrigin,
-        background: theme.gutterBackground,
+        background: gutterFill(theme.gutterBackground, isGroupMember),
         borderRight: `1px solid ${theme.gutterBorder}`,
         // A group's member rows are `aria-level="2"`, and until this they read
         // as level 2 to a screen reader while looking identical to every
@@ -578,7 +589,7 @@ export function TimelineTrackHeader({
             }
             clipCount={clipCount}
             isExpanded={isExpanded}
-            gutterBackground={theme.gutterBackground}
+            gutterBackground={gutterFill(theme.gutterBackground, isGroupMember)}
             columnWidth={showTrackLabel ? LABEL_COL_W : contentOrigin}
             lanesId={lanesId}
             onToggleClipExpanded={onToggleClipExpanded}
@@ -615,7 +626,7 @@ export function TimelineTrackHeader({
                 expandedElement={keyframeClip}
                 currentTime={currentTime}
                 clipPercentage={clipPercentage}
-                gutterBackground={theme.gutterBackground}
+                gutterBackground={gutterFill(theme.gutterBackground, isGroupMember)}
                 columnWidth={showTrackLabel ? LABEL_COL_W : contentOrigin}
                 onTogglePropertyGroupKeyframe={onTogglePropertyGroupKeyframe}
                 onSeek={onSeek}
@@ -638,7 +649,7 @@ export function TimelineTrackHeader({
                 }
                 top={getTimelineLaneTop(lanes.length) + index * AUTOMATION_LANE_H}
                 isLastLane={index === automationRows.length - 1}
-                gutterBackground={theme.gutterBackground}
+                gutterBackground={gutterFill(theme.gutterBackground, isGroupMember)}
                 columnWidth={showTrackLabel ? LABEL_COL_W : contentOrigin}
                 onRemove={onRemoveAutomationLane}
               />