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Notion similar to k-wise independence

I want to construct a family of functions $H:\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ with a property that is similar to k-wise independence. Specifically, I want $H$ to satisfy the following property. Let $k$ be some large natural number that is fixed. There exists a $d$ such that for every $n^k$ tuple of $n$ bit strings $x_1,...,x_{n^k}$,

$Pr_{h \leftarrow H}[ \cap_{j=2}^{n^k} h(x_j)=0 \, \cap \, h(x_1)=1] \geq 1/n^d$

The additional (and crucial constraint) is that I want to be able to compute this family of functions using (a family of) circuits of size at most $n^3$ ($k$ is much bigger than 3). Note that if we don't have this constraint, then it is possible to do this (using family of circuits of size at least $n^e$).

Is it even possible for such a family to exist?