It’s sounding more and more like this is the case for the story you’re writing. Even more so, it sounds like you’ve objectively identified the story as scarring, angsty, severe, a Bad overall experience, that turns out to be a good thing. (Which still suggests a Success/Bad story.)
Actually, I’m wondering if you’re attributing a morality to the Dramatica terms of Good and Bad.* I made this error when I first started with Dramatica. Story Judgement is related to the Objective Story, since it’s part of the Objective Story Plot Dynamics. Thus, there is no morality inherent to Story Judgement.
@Lakis gave some great examples to relate this idea. Here are some more.
Note: I capitalize Dramatica terms, but I leave non-Dramatica terms lower case. This is especially important when dealing with common words that have specific meanings in the theory.
Think about an author writing a story from the perspective of a villain. Given the right frame, the author might stop the story when the villain has won and feels good, and even make the story feel Triumphant (Success/Good). However, the author could still frame the entire story as morally wrong, thus giving a moral judgement of bad.
Other combinations are possible as well. You can write a story that comes out feeling severe while the characters still achieve their goals (Success/Bad). Yet, still indicate the entirety of the experience as morally right, thus giving a moral judgement good.
The Story Judgement is an indication of fulfillment and severity, not one of morality.
*You might not be, but I’m writing this for when people might do so.