diff --git a/backend/text_processing/emphasis.py b/backend/text_processing/emphasis.py
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+import torch
+
+
+class Emphasis:
+    name: str = "Base"
+    description: str = ""
+    tokens: list[list[int]]
+    multipliers: torch.Tensor
+    z: torch.Tensor
+
+    def after_transformers(self):
+        pass
+
+
+class EmphasisNone(Emphasis):
+    name = "None"
+    description = "disable the mechanism entirely and treat (:.1.1) as literal characters"
+
+
+class EmphasisIgnore(Emphasis):
+    name = "Ignore"
+    description = "treat all empasised words as if they have no emphasis"
+
+
+class EmphasisOriginal(Emphasis):
+    name = "Original"
+    description = "the original emphasis implementation"
+
+    def after_transformers(self):
+        original_mean = self.z.mean()
+        self.z = self.z * self.multipliers.reshape(self.multipliers.shape + (1,)).expand(self.z.shape)
+        new_mean = self.z.mean()
+        self.z = self.z * (original_mean / new_mean)
+
+
+class EmphasisOriginalNoNorm(EmphasisOriginal):
+    name = "No norm"
+    description = "same as original, but without normalization (seems to work better for SDXL)"
+
+    def after_transformers(self):
+        self.z = self.z * self.multipliers.reshape(self.multipliers.shape + (1,)).expand(self.z.shape)
+
+
+def get_current_option(emphasis_option_name):
+    return next(iter([x for x in options if x.name == emphasis_option_name]), EmphasisOriginal)
+
+
+def get_options_descriptions():
+    return ", ".join(f"{x.name}: {x.description}" for x in options)
+
+
+options = [
+    EmphasisNone,
+    EmphasisIgnore,
+    EmphasisOriginal,
+    EmphasisOriginalNoNorm,
+]