diff --git a/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/index.ts b/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/index.ts
index fce687c60e50..bf44f4a43ace 100644
--- a/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/index.ts
+++ b/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/index.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import type { Plugin } from 'vitest/config';
 import { mergeConfig } from 'vitest/config';
 import type { ViteUserConfig } from 'vitest/config';
+import type {} from '@vitest/browser-playwright';
 
 import {
   DEFAULT_FILES_PATTERN,
@@ -403,6 +404,19 @@ export const storybookTest = async (options?: UserOptions): Promise<Plugin[]> =>
                   screenshotFailures: false,
                 }
               : {}),
+
+            // Inject the cursor reset command we use to prevent accidental hover states when running
+            // Storybook tests in Chromium on Linux. There is a known race condition / special code path
+            // in Chromium causing it to sometimes apply :hover to the element under the mouse cursor even
+            // when there was no mouse movement.
+            commands: {
+              async resetMousePosition(ctx) {
+                if (ctx.provider.name === 'playwright') {
+                  const frame = await ctx.frame();
+                  await frame.page().mouse.move(-1000, -1000);
+                }
+              },
+            },
           },
         },
 
diff --git a/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/setup-file.test.ts b/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/setup-file.test.ts
index 5f3540e5db05..911fa566a7fe 100644
--- a/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/setup-file.test.ts
+++ b/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/setup-file.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
 
-import { type Task, modifyErrorMessage } from './setup-file.ts';
+import { type Task, modifyErrorMessage, resetMousePositionBeforeTests } from './setup-file.ts';
 
 describe('modifyErrorMessage', () => {
   const originalUrl = import.meta.env.__STORYBOOK_URL__;
@@ -77,3 +77,68 @@ describe('modifyErrorMessage', () => {
     expect(task.result?.errors?.[0].message).toBe('Non story test failure');
   });
 });
+
+describe('resetMousePositionBeforeTests', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+    vi.doUnmock('vitest/browser');
+    vi.doUnmock('@vitest/browser/context');
+  });
+
+  it('should reset the mouse position when the browser command exists', async () => {
+    const resetMousePosition = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+
+    vi.doMock('vitest/browser', () => ({
+      commands: {
+        resetMousePosition,
+      },
+    }));
+
+    await resetMousePositionBeforeTests();
+
+    expect(resetMousePosition).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('should do nothing when resetMousePosition is not callable', async () => {
+    vi.doMock('vitest/browser', () => ({
+      commands: {
+        resetMousePosition: 'not-a-function',
+      },
+    }));
+
+    await expect(resetMousePositionBeforeTests()).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('should rethrow unexpected errors', async () => {
+    const error = new Error('boom');
+
+    vi.doMock('vitest/browser', () => {
+      throw error;
+    });
+
+    await expect(resetMousePositionBeforeTests()).rejects.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('should fallback to vitest v3 browser context when vitest/browser is not found', async () => {
+    const resetMousePosition = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+
+    vi.doMock('vitest/browser', () => {
+      const browser = {};
+      Object.defineProperty(browser, 'commands', {
+        get: () => {
+          throw new Error("Cannot find module 'vitest/browser'");
+        },
+      });
+      return browser;
+    });
+    vi.doMock('@vitest/browser/context', () => ({
+      commands: {
+        resetMousePosition,
+      },
+    }));
+
+    await resetMousePositionBeforeTests();
+
+    expect(resetMousePosition).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/setup-file.ts b/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/setup-file.ts
index 5621698ab1bc..662a5051a6e7 100644
--- a/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/setup-file.ts
+++ b/code/addons/vitest/src/vitest-plugin/setup-file.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-import { afterEach, beforeAll, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { beforeEach, afterEach, beforeAll, vi } from 'vitest';
 import type { RunnerTask } from 'vitest';
 
 import { Channel } from 'storybook/internal/channels';
 
 import { COMPONENT_TESTING_PANEL_ID } from '../constants.ts';
+import { isFunction } from 'es-toolkit/predicate';
 
 declare global {
   // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/ban-ts-comment
@@ -34,10 +35,62 @@ export const modifyErrorMessage = ({ task }: { task: Task }) => {
   }
 };
 
+export const resetMousePositionBeforeTests = async () => {
+  try {
+    const browserCommands = await import('vitest/browser').then((module) => module.commands);
+    if ('resetMousePosition' in browserCommands && isFunction(browserCommands.resetMousePosition)) {
+      await browserCommands.resetMousePosition();
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Retry with Vitest 3 context module when vitest/browser is not found.
+    if (error instanceof Error && error.message.includes("Cannot find module 'vitest/browser'")) {
+      try {
+        const browserCommands = await import('@vitest/browser/context').then(
+          (module) => module.commands
+        );
+        if (
+          'resetMousePosition' in browserCommands &&
+          isFunction(browserCommands.resetMousePosition)
+        ) {
+          await browserCommands.resetMousePosition();
+        }
+        return;
+      } catch (vitest3Error) {
+        if (
+          vitest3Error instanceof Error &&
+          vitest3Error.message.includes("Cannot find module '@vitest/browser/context'")
+        ) {
+          return;
+        }
+        if (
+          vitest3Error instanceof Error &&
+          vitest3Error.message.includes('can be imported only inside the Browser Mode')
+        ) {
+          return;
+        }
+        throw vitest3Error;
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Ignore "Error: vitest/browser can be imported only inside the Browser Mode."
+    if (
+      error instanceof Error &&
+      error.message.includes('can be imported only inside the Browser Mode')
+    ) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // Throw anything else
+    throw error;
+  }
+};
+
 beforeAll(() => {
   if (globalThis.globalProjectAnnotations) {
     return globalThis.globalProjectAnnotations.beforeAll();
   }
 });
 
+beforeEach(resetMousePositionBeforeTests);
+
 afterEach(modifyErrorMessage);