Now here are some comments on the case when $n=p$ is prime.
I start with extracting from OP's table these cases:
In this case (and only in this case), the "only" relation between the $\zeta_p^j$ is the fact that the sum is zero. That is, the family $(\zeta_p^j)_{0\le j\le p-2}$ is linearly $\Q$-free.
Here is already what we can extract from OP's table in the prime case (adding the $q$ and $c$ columns, and dividing the number of cases by 2 since OP's table also includes the cardinal $p-q$ case).
$p$ | $q$ | $Z_{p,q}$ | $c_{p,q}$ | number of cases |
---|---|---|---|---|
$p$ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
$p$ | 1 | 1 | 0 | $p$ |
7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | $2p$ |
11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | $2p$ |
13 | 4 | 3 | 1 | $4p$ |
19 | 9 | 5 | 4 | $2p$ |
23 | 11 | 6 | 5 | $2p$ |
31 | 6 | 5 | 1 | $10p$ |
31 | 15 | 8 | 7 | $8p$ |
(5) [Added after OP's comment to a first version of this answer] J. Singer's examples. (J. Singer, "A theorem in finite projective geometry and some applications to number theory", Trans. AMS 43 377-385, 1938 link). For a prime-power $m$, Singer fixes an element of order $p=m^2+m+1$ in $\mathrm{PGL}_3(\mathbf{F}_m)$. So $\langle T\rangle$ acts simply transitively on $\mathrm{P}^2(\mathbf{F}_m)$. Fix $x_0\in \mathrm{P}^2(\mathbf{F}_m)$. Let $I$ be the set of $i\in\Z/p\Z$ such that $x_0,Tx_0,T^ix_0$ are aligned. Then $I\in\W(p)$, with $|I|=m+1$, $c_I=1$, $|Z_I|=m$. Example: $m=5$, $p=31$, $T=\begin{pmatrix}0&0&1\\1&0&0\\0&1&1\end{pmatrix}$, $x_0=[1:0:0]$, $I=\{0,1,3,8,12,18\}$. First few values (with $p$ prime — Singer's construction doesn't assume $p$ prime: only $m$ has to be a prime power) are listed here; note that the cases $p=7,13$ already appeared in (1),(3) respectively; the case $p=73$ appeared in (4) and indeed we can obtain in this way an affine image of the set of nonzero 8th-powers.
$p$ | $q$ | $Z_{p,q}$ | $c_{p,q}$ |
---|---|---|---|
7 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
13 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
31 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
73 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
307 | 18 | 17 | 1 |
757 | 28 | 27 | 1 |
1723 | 42 | 41 | 1 |
This is not the whole picture, since OP's list includesindicates that there are other cases for $p=31$, namely with $q=6$ andwhen $q=10$$(p,q)=(31,15)$ (and even for $p=31$,only $q=15$, it shows that there are possible subsets beyond the set of affine images of$2p$ among them being corresponding to the set of nonzero squares and its affine images). I'd be curious if these subsets, say forThere are probably also other values of $p=31$ and$(p,q)$ but one should test for $q\in\{6,10\}$ can be defined in a natural way$p>31$ to find them.
For various $p$, I checked the possible $q$ with the condition that $p-1$ divides $q(q-1)$. The solutions with $k\le 1$ or $q=(p-1)/2$ have been described and are achieved by some $i$. Let me list the first other solutions (i.e., $1<q<(p-1)/2$), excluding also the ones already listed above in (0)-(45).
$p$ | $q$ | $Z_{p,q}$ | $c_{p,q}$ |
---|---|---|---|
29 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
31 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
31 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
41 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
43 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
43 | 15 | 10 | 5 |
53 | 13 | 10 | 3 |
61 | 16 | 12 | 4 |
61 | 21 | 14 | 7 |
61 | 25 | 15 | 10 |
67 | 12 | 10 | 2 |
67 | 22 | 15 | 7 |
among them, the ones for $(p,q)=(29,8)$ or, $=(31,10)$ $=(43,7)$ are not achieved.
I don't know about the other ones. About the specific case $c=1$, while both forone checks easily that it corresponds to the case when $p=31$ are$p$ has the form $m^2+m+1$ (with $|I|=m+1$). By (5) this is indeed achieved when $m$ is a prime power, and the case $m=6$, $p=43$ shows that it need not be achieved otherwise. The next cases are when $m$ is $12,14,15$ (corresponding to $p$ being $157$, $211$, $241$).