quiver
plot may be too much for plotting only one vector in 3-D. You can achieve a similar plot by using a simple plot3
such as the one plotted below.
In this plot, the origin of the vector is the blue dot, and the direction is given by the red line.
The code
%v is the direction of the vector (3 cartesian coordinates)
v = sort(randn(100,3));
v = bsxfun(@rdivide,v,sqrt(sum(v.^2,2)));
%xyz the origin of the vector
ind = linspace(-pi,pi,100);
x = cos(ind);
y = sin(ind);
z = ind;
%the plotting function
figure
for ii = 1:numel(ind)
plot3(x(ii),y(ii),z(ii),'bo'); %origin in blue
set(gca,'XLim', [-3 3], 'YLim', [-3 3], 'ZLim', [-3 3]);
hold on;
hl = plot3( linspace(x(ii), x(ii)+v(ii,1),10), ...
linspace(y(ii), y(ii)+v(ii,2),10), ...
linspace(z(ii), z(ii)+v(ii,3),10), ...
'r'); %direction in red
view(80,10);
pause(0.1);
%clf
end