People really don't understand narcissism when they categorize it into different types like grandiose, vulnerable, communal,…
No it's a defense when you can't look into your (perceived) weakness or faults, therefore you rewrite narrative so that you don't have too.
If you were born rich or high IQ, you use status, look, popularity or achievement as metrics because it's believable and because you already have them.
If your parents are strict or that you learn to be people pleasing, it's easier to be a collectivist where you feel superior on your kindness, tacts and empathy. You already have strangers react positively to those behavior so that's believable and achievable to you. But that's not real kindness or empathy, that's why I mentioned “strangers”. Because helping someone to carry groceries is totally different from having the ability to admit mistakes to yourself or to someone close.
If you were born a normal person with average IQ but you like to read books and you like to write. You are also an art lover. You might think that you are a more open, authentic or vulnerable in a good way. You might even think that you are a victim of toxic masculinity. Many people assume that you are, in fact, deeper, than say, a blunt person who just says what they think. And this is believable because feminists say that boys are oppressed for the vulnerability.
So in general, you will use the resource that you have in disposal to be superior. The quicker the easier of the resource that you have it's more likely that you will use it over other resources. So you would think, once the communal ones get power and money, they will move to the more typical type of narcissim. Power, status, money. Because now, people pleasing requires more efforts than simply showing the status you already have.