I feel complicated to answer these questions and I cannot even a conclusion whether or not emotional consistency is better than emotional ambivalence at all times.
If a person is emotionally ambivalent, he/ she always has to struggle from positive and negative emotions. This not only affects his productivity (or qualties of work), but also exerts great pressure for him to go between the two extremes. However, I don't think emotional consistency is better-off at all times. Imagine if a person is pessimistic in nature, being emotionally consistent, he will be always down. Such that he will be extremely painful in most of his life times.
Having been suffering from depression for a few years, I really hate encountering emotional breakdown because at that moment, there are no ways to cheer up myself and I have completely no motivations in doing anything. No one understands and...... that I always have the feeling of dying soon.....
Thus, neither emotional ambivalence nor being in a consistent state is good enough.

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