With Index controllers, on live, when opening the SteamVR dashboard, regardless of whether your gestures are locked or not, your hands will be posed as "open hand".
On the beta, with Legacy Fingers enabled, the same behavior is only observed with avatar gestures enabled, when the gestures are disabled, the hand will be using the "claw" pose instead.
Edit: Not sure if one of the updates changed it, but this behavior is now observed regardless of whether "Legacy Fingers" is enabled or not.