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If you take a standard representation of a symmetric group, take an alternating tensor power of it, what groups appear as stabilizers of vectors?

I'm particularly interested in the case $\Lambda^3 \mathbb{F}_3^n$, and specifically, just stabilizers of vectors that satisfy the two conditions (i) there are no nonzero coordinates (in any basis induced from a basis of $\mathbb{F}_3^n$) and (ii) tthey are in the image of $(\mathbb{F}_3^n)^3 \to \Lambda^3 \mathbb{F}_3^n$. I can calculate with GAP all stabilizers for n = 4, 5, and stabilizers for given vectors for n = 6, 7.

For n = 4 I get $\mathbb{Z} / 4, \mathbb{Z} / 3$, and $Alt(4)$, for n = 5 I get $1, \mathbb{Z} / 3$ and $\mathbb{Z} / 5$, and for n = 6 and 7 I can find cyclic groups of orders 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 1, 3 respectively.

It seems like the sort of problem that should have a solution....