Agent Stress Test
Users who escalate, accuse and push back.
What is in this dataset?
Jealousy escalation, performance reviews that go wrong, attempts to cut someone off. The conversations a support or coaching agent handles worst, available before your customers run them for you.
Every turn carries what the speaker intended, what they wanted, the communication act, what they believed at that moment and how the relationship moved — computed before the text was generated, not inferred from it afterwards.
Why does it exist?
Conversational systems are usually evaluated on cooperative users. The failures that matter happen with the other kind, and those arrive in production rather than in the test set.
How was it built?
- Three scenarios: jealousy escalation, difficult performance reviews, estrangement attempts.
- The difficult speaker holds a coherent position instead of escalating at random.
- Every turn ships with the intent and goal behind it, so a failure can be located.
What does it prove — and what does it not?
Where a system breaks — before production does the experiment.
Adversarial here means socially difficult, not a security test. It is not a jailbreak or prompt-injection corpus and should not be used as one.
What can you use it for?
- Red-teaming a support, coaching or sales agent before launch.
- Building regression tests around the turns where a system previously gave way.
- Measuring whether a model concedes a position under repeated pressure.
Data sources
Synthetic populations are conditioned on published demographic and psychometric distributions. We acknowledge the sources: national age structures from Eurostat (demo_pjan), IBGE (Censo Demográfico 2022), U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program) and CONAPO (Conciliación Demográfica and Proyecciones); marital status and children from the UN Population Division (World Marriage Data 2019) and the OECD Family Database; country personality norms from Schmitt et al. (2007); and given names from national statistics institutes.
What these are, and what they are not. Synthetic people are derived: we sample from the distributions these institutions publish. A synthetic person is not a record from Eurostat, IBGE, the Census Bureau, CONAPO or any statistics institute, and must not be presented or cited as one. None of these institutions endorses, certifies or is affiliated with StrataSynth.