a direct transfer of this concept to text isn't possible because the SotA for text generation is based on transformers, which do not work using latent space sam

a direct transfer of this concept to text isn't possible because the SotA for text generation is based on transformers, which do not work using latent space sampling. The directly analogous version of stylegan in the nlp world would be vq-vae, but currently it doesn't match transformers in generation quality. There are other ways to do generative writing though, mostly with prompts.