The key is to first do .get_layer on the Model object, then do another .get_layer on that specifying the specific vgg16 layer, THEN do .output:
layer_output = model.get_layer('vgg16').get_layer('block3_conv1').output
The key is to first do .get_layer on the Model object, then do another .get_layer on that specifying the specific vgg16 layer, THEN do .output:
layer_output = model.get_layer('vgg16').get_layer('block3_conv1').output