//  [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.text_encoder.text_projection(encoder_output.last_hidden_state)
            embeds_pooled = encoder_output.text_embeds
            embeds = embeds / torch.linalg.norm(embeds_pooled.unsqueeze(1), dim=-1, keepdim=True)
            return embeds

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

        text_inputs = self.tokenizer(
            prompt,
            padding="max_length",
            max_length=self.tokenizer.model_max_length,
            truncation=True,
            return_tensors="pt",
        )
        text_input_ids = text_inputs.input_ids
        untruncated_ids = self.tokenizer(prompt, padding="max_length", return_tensors="pt").input_ids

        if not torch.equal(text_input_ids, untruncated_ids):
            removed_text = self.tokenizer.batch_decode(untruncated_ids[:, self.tokenizer.model_max_length - 1 : -1])
            logger.warning(
                "The following part of your input was truncated because CLIP can only handle sequences up to"
                f" {self.tokenizer.model_max_length} tokens: {removed_text}"
            )

        if hasattr(self.text_encoder.config, "use_attention_mask") and self.text_encoder.config.use_attention_mask:
            attention_mask = text_inputs.attention_mask.to(device)
        else:
            attention_mask = None

        prompt_embeds = self.text_encoder(
            text_input_ids.to(device),
            attention_mask=attention_mask,
        )
        prompt_embeds = normalize_embeddings(prompt_embeds)

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

        # get unconditional embeddings for classifier free guidance
        if do_classifier_free_guidance:
            uncond_tokens: List[str]
            if negative_prompt is None:
                uncond_tokens = [""] * 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, str):
                uncond_tokens = [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_tokens = negative_prompt

            max_length = text_input_ids.shape[-1]
            uncond_input = self.tokenizer(
                uncond_tokens,
                padding="max_length",
                max_length=max_length,
                truncation=True,
                return_tensors="pt",
            )

            if hasattr(self.text_encoder.config, "use_attention_mask") and self.text_encoder.config.use_attention_mask:
                attention_mask = uncond_input.attention_mask.to(device)
            else:
                attention_mask = None

            negative_prompt_embeds = self.text_encoder(
                uncond_input.input_ids.to(device),
                attention_mask=attention_mask,
            )
            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 text embeddings into a single batch
            # to avoid doing two forward passes
            prompt_embeds = torch.cat([negative_prompt_embeds, prompt_embeds])

        return prompt_embeds