This is correct. The reason is that your resident state does not consider the gains or losses that were attributed to another state. Your resident state only wants to tax income or recognize losses generated within that state.
When you enter the income from the other state (gains) into your resident state return, you are reducing your resident state income because the income from the other state is being subtracted. Therefore, your resident state refund will go up since the taxable income was less.
When you then enter the losses from the other state into your resident state return, you are increasing your resident state income because the losses from the other state is being added. If the loss was not generated in your resident state, then it cannot be used to reduce your resident state taxable income, therefore the loss is added to the resident state income. This means the taxable income would increase and your refund/balance due would change accordingly.
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