//  [python]
def _encode_prompt(self, prompt, device, num_images_per_prompt, do_classifier_free_guidance, negative_prompt):
        r"""
        Encodes the prompt into text encoder hidden states.

        Args:
            prompt (`str` or `List[str]`):
                prompt to be encoded
            device: (`torch.device`):
                torch device
            num_images_per_prompt (`int`):
                number of images that should be generated per prompt
            do_classifier_free_guidance (`bool`):
                whether to use classifier free guidance or not
            negative_prompt (`str` or `List[str]`):
                The prompt or prompts not to guide the image generation. Ignored when not using guidance (i.e., ignored
                if `guidance_scale` is less than `1`).
        """

        def normalize_embeddings(encoder_output):
            embeds = self.image_encoder.vision_model.post_layernorm(encoder_output.last_hidden_state)
            embeds = self.image_encoder.visual_projection(embeds)
            embeds_pooled = embeds[:, 0:1]
            embeds = embeds / torch.linalg.norm(embeds_pooled, dim=-1, keepdim=True)
            return embeds

        if isinstance(prompt, torch.Tensor) and len(prompt.shape) == 4:
            prompt = list(prompt)

        batch_size = len(prompt) if isinstance(prompt, list) else 1

        # get prompt text embeddings
        image_input = self.image_feature_extractor(images=prompt, return_tensors="pt")
        pixel_values = image_input.pixel_values.to(device).to(self.image_encoder.dtype)
        image_embeddings = self.image_encoder(pixel_values)
        image_embeddings = normalize_embeddings(image_embeddings)

        # duplicate image embeddings for each generation per prompt, using mps friendly method
        bs_embed, seq_len, _ = image_embeddings.shape
        image_embeddings = image_embeddings.repeat(1, num_images_per_prompt, 1)
        image_embeddings = image_embeddings.view(bs_embed * num_images_per_prompt, seq_len, -1)

        # get unconditional embeddings for classifier free guidance
        if do_classifier_free_guidance:
            uncond_images: List[str]
            if negative_prompt is None:
                uncond_images = [np.zeros((512, 512, 3)) + 0.5] * batch_size
            elif type(prompt) is not type(negative_prompt):
                raise TypeError(
                    f"`negative_prompt` should be the same type to `prompt`, but got {type(negative_prompt)} !="
                    f" {type(prompt)}."
                )
            elif isinstance(negative_prompt, PIL.Image.Image):
                uncond_images = [negative_prompt]
            elif batch_size != len(negative_prompt):
                raise ValueError(
                    f"`negative_prompt`: {negative_prompt} has batch size {len(negative_prompt)}, but `prompt`:"
                    f" {prompt} has batch size {batch_size}. Please make sure that passed `negative_prompt` matches"
                    " the batch size of `prompt`."
                )
            else:
                uncond_images = negative_prompt

            uncond_images = self.image_feature_extractor(images=uncond_images, return_tensors="pt")
            pixel_values = uncond_images.pixel_values.to(device).to(self.image_encoder.dtype)
            negative_prompt_embeds = self.image_encoder(pixel_values)
            negative_prompt_embeds = normalize_embeddings(negative_prompt_embeds)

            # duplicate unconditional embeddings for each generation per prompt, using mps friendly method
            seq_len = negative_prompt_embeds.shape[1]
            negative_prompt_embeds = negative_prompt_embeds.repeat(1, num_images_per_prompt, 1)
            negative_prompt_embeds = negative_prompt_embeds.view(batch_size * num_images_per_prompt, seq_len, -1)

            # For classifier free guidance, we need to do two forward passes.
            # Here we concatenate the unconditional and conditional embeddings into a single batch
            # to avoid doing two forward passes
            image_embeddings = torch.cat([negative_prompt_embeds, image_embeddings])

        return image_embeddings