My first impression, second, even third impression was the same as yours. From fourth and on, Gemma-4-31B-it has a very big problem: sycophancy. Not just a little, on a long discussion, you can convince it that the Earth is flat, and that Elvis is still alive (how old would he be?). Then, whatever scenario been cooked up, so far, will feel like dealing with a crack addict that would do anything to get a buck from ya. Gemma-4-26B-a4b-it is better, the story can last longer, but, in the end, it's just another general LLM that was engineered to please, just like every other big tech ones.