Component state Hide Layer visibility confusion

Dear Community,

Searching the Discussions, I can see this has been written about before, but not specifically enough.

I'm confused. I've created a dropdown menu. The dropdown menu's main button Component has a default state and a toggled state, revealing the dropdown menu. Now, I don't want the dropdown menu to show itself when the Button is in default state. So I Hide the menu in my Layers pane and I click on the button layer, to show the Component window, where I can toggle between its states. However, the moment I click Hide on the menu in my Layers pane, it truly hides.. and disappears seemingly out of the project. How can I get it back? When I do CMD+, the document simply zooms in. Even when I Lock it, I can't seem to simply find a way to get the button states right. It feels like such a basic thing, but I've been stuck with it for days to the point of frustration. I'd love to move forward. Please help me out.