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Does Ribet's construction of class fields give us eigenspaces of rank 1?

Ribet's paper on the Herbrand-Ribet theorem constructs a representation $\rho: Gal(\overline{\Bbb Q}/\Bbb Q) \to GL_2(\mathbb F_q)$ where $q = p^r$ of the specific form: $ \begin{bmatrix} 1 & *\\ ...