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Vega can be interpreted as the amount by which the price of an option will change with 1% change in implied volatility of the underlying. One common scenario when option Vega changes is when there is a large movement in underlying price. Long calls and long puts both have positive vega where as short calls and short puts will always have negative Vega.
