An experiment at Berkeley University revealed that asserive people who behave in a more dominant way are viewed to be more capable than less dominant individuals, whether or not they actually have any genuine skills or competencies.
In the experiment students were asked to rate their own personalities in terms of dominance and then join a group that was videotaped solving a set of math problems. The students were told that the best group would win a large pot of cash as a prize.
Individuals who had rated their own personalities as more dominant were indeed perceived by others to have exerted more influence on the group. Moreover, dominant individuals were perceived as influential largely because others thought they were more competent. Even independent observers who only watched the video identified the more dominant characters as being the most capable, regardless of whether or not they really were.
So it seems that a by product of assertiveness is an air of competence.
This sounds like a classic 3 dimensional expression of high level, positive, personal energy (physical, emotional and motivational-V.I.B.E.) without needing the 4th - intellectual dimension.
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