No one can see your tax returns so we do not know why you owe the state. The usual reason is that you did not have enough tax withheld from your paychecks and still owe the state more. Double check all of the amounts you entered from yourW-2's especially from boxes 16 and 17 to see if you made any mistakes. You could print out your 2020 and 2021 state returns to see them side by side and look for what is different----line by line.
And there are some federal credits that changed for 2021 so you may be getting a federal refund because of earned income credit, the child tax credit or the recovery rebate credit.
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