We report electric quadrupole ͑E2͒ and magnetic dipole ͑M1͒ transition amplitudes of the first few low-lying states of quadruply ionized vanadium ͑V 4+ ͒, which are important in various experimental applications and astrophysics. To our knowledge, most of these presented results are determined for the first time in the literature. A relativistic multireference Fock-space coupled-cluster theory with single ͑S͒, double ͑D͒, and partial triple ͑T͒ excitations is employed to compute the forbidden transition probabilities and lifetimes of the low-lying states in V 4+ . Estimations of different correlation effects arising through the above formalism have been highlighted by investigating core and valence electron excitations. A long lifetime is found for the first excited 3d 2 D 5/2 state, which suggests that V 4+ may be one of the useful candidates for many important studies.