Meanings of default state in English

You talk about how happiness is a human's default state.

Overseas is my default state (anyway) and I usually only come home for Christmas, he said.

The exception would be those groups of reviewers whose default state is to be aware of bias issues.

But in its default state, WhatsApp doesn't alert a sender when the key fingerprint of a recipient has changed.

Melancholia is my default state.

Impatience was Sakai's default state.

Once they no longer had orders, they seemed to lapse into a default state of trying to get increased energy and break the constraints.

We propose a step-wise 'transcriptional dominance' model of photoreceptor cell fate determination, with the S cone representing the default state of a generic photoreceptor precursor.