TITLE: Unramified Galois representations not from smooth and proper stacks
QUESTION [11 upvotes]: Are there any irreducible representations of $\operatorname{Gal}(\bar{\mathbb Q}/\mathbb Q)$ over $\mathbb Q_l$  that are unramified away from $l$ and crystalline at $l$ but are not known to arise from the etale cohomology of smooth and proper stacks over $\operatorname{Spec}\mathbb Z$?

Thee simplest examples of unramified crystalline Galois representations known, other than powers of the cyclotimc character, are the two-dimensional Galois representations arising from level $1$, weight $n+1$ modular forms. These live inside the etale cohomology of the stack $\overline{M}_{1,n}$, which is indeed smooth and proper. More examples come from other $\overline{M}_{g,n}$, but these are the only examples I am aware of!
The situation for schemes is very different where, as far as I can tell, no Galois representation other than powers of the cyclotomic character is known to arise from smooth and proper schemes over $\mathbb Z$.

REPLY [7 votes]: Here's a class of examples which isn't in your list as far as I know. Take an even unimodular lattice, e.g. the $E_8$ lattice. The corresponding orthogonal group is a reductive group over $\mathbf{Q}$ which is split at every finite place and compact at $\infty$ (see Gross, "Groups over $\mathbf{Z}$", Inventiones 124 (1996)). There will be lots of algebraic automorphic representations of this group $G$ if you take the weight large enough, and these will give you automorphic representations of $GL(n)$ which are self-dual and unramified at all finite places. It's known that these have Galois representations attached, which will be crystalline at $\ell$ and unramified everywhere else; but I don't think these are known to come from smooth proper stacks over $\mathbf{Z}$.
There is much more on level 1 automorphic representations in the recent preprint of Chenevier and Renard, http://www.math.polytechnique.fr/~chenevier/articles/dimform.pdf.