I used the following tutorial to use my Scikit-learn sentiment-analysis model in Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/docs/scikit/quickstart
My model defined
As discussed in the comments, the file which contains the JSON_INSTANCES needs to have a single JSON on each line.
JSON_INSTANCES
In this case it would be
"the quick brown fox" "another test"
which may look weird but it is a valid JSON.