I ran an experiment. For many of the PlantUml elements I displayed them with padding and margin set to 5.

@startuml
<style>
.stereo {
BackgroundColor palegreen
padding 5
margin 5
}
</style>
hide stereotype
actor actor << stereo >>
actor/ "actor/" << stereo >>
agent agent << stereo >>
artifact artifact << stereo >>
boundary boundary << stereo >>
card card << stereo >>
circle circle << stereo >>
cloud cloud << stereo >>
collections collections << stereo >>
component component << stereo >>
control control << stereo >>
database database << stereo >>
entity entity << stereo >>
file file << stereo >>
folder folder << stereo >>
frame frame << stereo >>
hexagon hexagon << stereo >>
interface interface << stereo >>
label label << stereo >>
node node << stereo >>
package package << stereo >>
person person << stereo >>
queue queue << stereo >>
rectangle rectangle << stereo >>
stack stack << stereo >>
storage storage << stereo >>
usecase usecase << stereo >>
usecase/ "usecase/" << stereo >>
@enduml
I then changed 5 to 50

with the following code
@startuml
<style>
.stereo {
BackgroundColor palegreen
padding 50
margin 50
}
</style>
hide stereotype
actor actor << stereo >>
actor/ "actor/" << stereo >>
agent agent << stereo >>
artifact artifact << stereo >>
boundary boundary << stereo >>
card card << stereo >>
circle circle << stereo >>
cloud cloud << stereo >>
collections collections << stereo >>
component component << stereo >>
control control << stereo >>
database database << stereo >>
entity entity << stereo >>
file file << stereo >>
folder folder << stereo >>
frame frame << stereo >>
hexagon hexagon << stereo >>
interface interface << stereo >>
label label << stereo >>
node node << stereo >>
package package << stereo >>
person person << stereo >>
queue queue << stereo >>
rectangle rectangle << stereo >>
stack stack << stereo >>
storage storage << stereo >>
usecase usecase << stereo >>
usecase/ "usecase/" << stereo >>
@enduml
I would say that most elements do not support margin and padding <style> based styling.
Dick Maley