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+from contextlib import nullcontext
+
+import torch
+from mgds.PipelineModule import PipelineModule
+from mgds.pipelineModuleTypes.RandomAccessPipelineModule import RandomAccessPipelineModule
+from transformers import Qwen3ForCausalLM
+
+from diffusers import AnimaTextConditioner
+
+
+class EncodeAnimaText(
+    PipelineModule,
+    RandomAccessPipelineModule,
+):
+    def __init__(
+            self,
+            tokens_name: str,
+            tokens_attention_mask_name: str,
+            t5_tokens_name: str,
+            t5_tokens_attention_mask_name: str,
+            hidden_state_out_name: str,
+            text_encoder: Qwen3ForCausalLM,
+            text_conditioner: AnimaTextConditioner,
+            autocast_contexts: list[torch.autocast | None] = None,
+            dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
+    ):
+        super(EncodeAnimaText, self).__init__()
+        self.tokens_name = tokens_name
+        self.tokens_attention_mask_name = tokens_attention_mask_name
+        self.t5_tokens_name = t5_tokens_name
+        self.t5_tokens_attention_mask_name = t5_tokens_attention_mask_name
+        self.hidden_state_out_name = hidden_state_out_name
+        self.text_encoder = text_encoder
+        self.text_conditioner = text_conditioner
+
+        self.autocast_contexts = [nullcontext()] if autocast_contexts is None else autocast_contexts
+        self.dtype = dtype
+
+    def length(self) -> int:
+        return self._get_previous_length(self.tokens_name)
+
+    def get_inputs(self) -> list[str]:
+        return [self.tokens_name, self.tokens_attention_mask_name, self.t5_tokens_name, self.t5_tokens_attention_mask_name]
+
+    def get_outputs(self) -> list[str]:
+        return [self.hidden_state_out_name]
+
+    def get_item(self, variation: int, index: int, requested_name: str = None) -> dict:
+        tokens = self._get_previous_item(variation, self.tokens_name, index).unsqueeze(0)
+        tokens_mask = self._get_previous_item(variation, self.tokens_attention_mask_name, index).unsqueeze(0)
+        t5_tokens = self._get_previous_item(variation, self.t5_tokens_name, index).unsqueeze(0)
+        t5_tokens_mask = self._get_previous_item(variation, self.t5_tokens_attention_mask_name, index).unsqueeze(0)
+
+        with self._all_contexts(self.autocast_contexts):
+            qwen_hidden = self.text_encoder(
+                tokens,
+                attention_mask=tokens_mask.float(),
+                output_hidden_states=False,
+                return_dict=True,
+                use_cache=False,
+            ).last_hidden_state
+            # zero out padding positions (mirrors AnimaTextEncoderStep in diffusers)
+            qwen_hidden = qwen_hidden * tokens_mask.to(qwen_hidden).unsqueeze(-1)
+            hidden_state = self.text_conditioner(
+                source_hidden_states=qwen_hidden.to(dtype=self.text_conditioner.dtype),
+                target_input_ids=t5_tokens,
+                target_attention_mask=t5_tokens_mask,
+                source_attention_mask=tokens_mask,
+            )
+
+        hidden_state = hidden_state.squeeze(dim=0)
+
+        return {
+            self.hidden_state_out_name: hidden_state,
+        }