Slider (and popup) issues

I have created a screen in Storyline with a slider that has three elements (Away From - Neutral - Towards). When the user drags the slider circle to the left, an Away From example appears (this is built into the state).

When they drag it to the right, a Towards example pops up (also built into the state). When they drag it to the middle, the example/s disappears.

The above works fine with one slider. However, I have five sliders on the screen (and a total of 10 popup examples). If the user works through the examples in sequence, it works fine as they stack on top of one another. The problem is that if they forget to move the slider circle back to the middle, and decide to review an earlier example, it is hidden in the stack of popups. In the screenshot below (ignore shading on sliders!), I worked sequentially through each slider popup (2 per slider) and then decided I wanted to view the example for Status - Away From. However, it won't show it to me because it's registered that the Fairness (Away From) popup is the overriding one.

How do I work around this? I tried to add a Close button to the states with example popups but Storyline won't let me add a trigger. I thought about adding a hide layer to the circles but I will have to create a crazy amount of layers for it to work and I'm not sure that's the right way. Unfortunately I can't upload my source file because of firewall issues. I may be able to add it from home later. If you have any suggestions at all, it would be great to hear from you. Thanks.