Core: Fix cwd handling for negated globs

[ia319]

Closes #33197, #32835

What I did

Due to dynamically computing the CWD, patterns starting with ! (e.g., !(_atoms)/**/*) were incorrectly interpreted by globby as negation patterns (exclusions) instead of extended globs (inclusions).

This change restores the custom CWD logic and prepends ./ to any pattern beginning with !. This ensures globby interprets the pattern as a relative file path using extended glob syntax (e.g., ./!(_atoms)/**/*), allowing the intended files to be matched correctly.

Since the original issue did not provide a reproduction repository, I created a sandbox based on the description to verify the fix:
https://github.com/ia319/storybook-PR-Preview-Sandbox/tree/main/negated-glob-patterns

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved glob pattern matching and directory handling to ensure reliable file discovery across different working directory configurations.

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☁️ Nx Cloud last updated this comment at 2025-12-01 13:52:34 UTC

[ndelangen]

I verified the repro, though the indenting is a bit off, I can see that in the second stories entries, the atoms are excluded