Social status appears to be represented as a vertical dimension. High status labels (e.g., “master”) are identified quicker when presented higher as compared to lower in the perceptual field, and vice versa for low status labels (e.g., “servant”). In this research, participants constructed representations of a status rank order between novel target persons, A > B > C > D, based on interactions they read in a story. Subsequent status queries about pairs of wider distance on the rank order are responded to quicker and with higher accuracy (Experiment 1). The spatial consistency effect was replicated and shown to make an independent contribution to the distance effect. Similar results are obtained even in a condition that does not explicitly provide inferences about nonadjacent pairs in the order, but requires these inferences to be made via transitivity during learning (Experiment 2). Implications for current theories of embodied social status are discussed.