diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_instruct.py b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_instruct.py
index 143f070f2..a997b2677 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_instruct.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_instruct.py
@@ -1,8 +1,49 @@
 """Module loading the AlpacaInstructPromptTokenizingStrategy class"""
+import logging
 
 from axolotl.prompt_tokenizers import AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy
 from axolotl.prompters import AlpacaPrompter, PromptStyle, UnpromptedPrompter
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.prompt_strategies.alpaca_instruct")
+
+
+class LatentSpaceAlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy(AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy):
+    """
+    Overrides the tokenization to include additional padding tokens as
+    latent space on the inputs
+    """
+
+    def _tokenize(self, prompt: str, add_eos_token=True, strip_bos_token=False):
+        # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+        result = self.tokenizer(
+            prompt,
+            truncation=True,
+            max_length=self.sequence_len,
+            padding=False,
+            return_tensors=None,
+        )
+        if len(result["input_ids"]) == 0:
+            LOG.warning("Tokenizer result is empty. You may want to audit your dataset")
+        if (
+            len(result["input_ids"]) > 0
+            and result["input_ids"][-1] != self.tokenizer.eos_token_id
+            and len(result["input_ids"]) < self.sequence_len
+            and add_eos_token
+        ):
+            result["input_ids"].append(self.tokenizer.eos_token_id)
+            result["attention_mask"].append(1)
+
+        if result["input_ids"][0] == self.tokenizer.bos_token_id and strip_bos_token:
+            result["input_ids"] = result["input_ids"][1:]
+            result["attention_mask"] = result["attention_mask"][1:]
+
+        # latent space
+        if add_eos_token and not strip_bos_token:
+            result["input_ids"].extend([self.tokenizer.pad_token_id] * 100)
+
+        result["labels"] = result["input_ids"].copy()
+        return result
+
 
 def load(tokenizer, cfg):
     return AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy(
@@ -20,3 +61,12 @@ def load_no_prompt(tokenizer, cfg):
         cfg.train_on_inputs,
         cfg.sequence_len,
     )
+
+
+def load_latent_space(tokenizer, cfg):
+    return LatentSpaceAlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy(
+        AlpacaPrompter(PromptStyle.INSTRUCT.value),
+        tokenizer,
+        cfg.train_on_inputs,
+        cfg.sequence_len,
+    )
diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/sharegpt_simple.py b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/sharegpt_simple.py
index bfe0d164b..92aea10d5 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/sharegpt_simple.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/sharegpt_simple.py
@@ -31,6 +31,52 @@ def load_guanaco(tokenizer, cfg):
     )
 
 
+def load_latent_space(tokenizer, cfg):
+    return LatentSpaceShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy(
+        ShareGPTPrompter(PromptStyle.CHAT.value),
+        tokenizer,
+        cfg.train_on_inputs,
+        cfg.sequence_len,
+    )
+
+
+class LatentSpaceShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy(ShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy):
+    """
+    latent space padded sharegpt strategy to grab conversations from the sample row
+    """
+
+    def get_conversation_thread(self, prompt):
+        return prompt["conversations"]
+
+    def _tokenize(self, prompt, add_eos_token=True, strip_bos_token=False):
+        # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+        result = self.tokenizer(
+            prompt,
+            truncation=True,
+            max_length=self.sequence_len,
+            padding=False,
+            return_tensors=None,
+        )
+        if (
+            result["input_ids"][-1] != self.tokenizer.eos_token_id
+            and len(result["input_ids"]) < self.sequence_len
+            and add_eos_token
+        ):
+            result["input_ids"].append(self.tokenizer.eos_token_id)
+            result["attention_mask"].append(1)
+
+        if result["input_ids"][0] == self.tokenizer.bos_token_id and strip_bos_token:
+            result["input_ids"] = result["input_ids"][1:]
+            result["attention_mask"] = result["attention_mask"][1:]
+
+        # latent space
+        if add_eos_token and not strip_bos_token:
+            result["input_ids"].extend([self.tokenizer.pad_token_id] * 100)
+
+        result["labels"] = result["input_ids"].copy()
+        return result
+
+
 class SimpleShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy(ShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy):
     """
     basic sharegpt strategy to grab conversations from the sample row