diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 326a69d3..bccbf0cc 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -757,6 +757,8 @@ export const OpenCodeMemPlugin: Plugin = async (ctx: PluginInput) => {
 
                 const { userProfileManager } =
                   await import("./services/user-profile/user-profile-manager.js");
+                const { stripProfileEmbeddings } =
+                  await import("./services/user-profile/profile-utils.js");
 
                 const userId = tags.user.userEmail || "unknown";
 
@@ -833,7 +835,7 @@ export const OpenCodeMemPlugin: Plugin = async (ctx: PluginInput) => {
                 // --- READ: no content provided ---
                 const profile = await userProfileManager.getActiveProfile(userId);
                 if (!profile) return JSON.stringify({ success: true, profile: null });
-                const pData = JSON.parse(profile.profileData);
+                const pData = stripProfileEmbeddings(JSON.parse(profile.profileData));
                 return JSON.stringify({
                   success: true,
                   profile: {
diff --git a/src/services/api-handlers.ts b/src/services/api-handlers.ts
index 478e00e4..ca4b3375 100644
--- a/src/services/api-handlers.ts
+++ b/src/services/api-handlers.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import type { MemoryType } from "../types/index.js";
 import { userPromptManager } from "./user-prompt/user-prompt-manager.js";
 import type { UserProfileData } from "./user-profile/types.js";
 import { sortProfileItems } from "../utils/profile.js";
+import { stripProfileEmbeddings } from "./user-profile/profile-utils.js";
 import type { ShardInfo } from "./turso/types.js";
 
 async function getAllMemoryShards(): Promise<ShardInfo[]> {
@@ -915,7 +916,7 @@ export async function handleGetUserProfile(userId?: string): Promise<ApiResponse
           message: "No profile found. Keep chatting to build your profile.",
         },
       };
-    const profileData = JSON.parse(profile.profileData);
+    const profileData = stripProfileEmbeddings(JSON.parse(profile.profileData));
     profileData.preferences = sortProfileItems(profileData.preferences as any[], "confidence");
     profileData.patterns = sortProfileItems(profileData.patterns as any[], "frequency");
     profileData.workflows = sortProfileItems(profileData.workflows as any[], "frequency");
diff --git a/src/services/user-profile/profile-utils.ts b/src/services/user-profile/profile-utils.ts
index 2f7b06f2..91a953f0 100644
--- a/src/services/user-profile/profile-utils.ts
+++ b/src/services/user-profile/profile-utils.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,31 @@ export const safeArray = <T>(arr: any): T[] => {
   return flattened;
 };
 
+/**
+ * Remove per-item embedding vectors (`centroid`/`anchor`) from profile data.
+ *
+ * Those 768-dim vectors are only used internally for similarity, dedup and
+ * drift detection. Returning them to the model or the read-only API inflates
+ * the payload by hundreds of KB, so callers that serialize profile data for
+ * display must strip them first. Callers pass freshly parsed profile JSON, so
+ * the fields are deleted in place and the same object is returned.
+ */
+export const stripProfileEmbeddings = <T>(data: T): T => {
+  if (!data || typeof data !== "object") return data;
+  const container = data as Record<string, unknown>;
+  for (const key of ["preferences", "patterns", "workflows"]) {
+    const items = container[key];
+    if (!Array.isArray(items)) continue;
+    for (const item of items) {
+      if (item && typeof item === "object") {
+        delete (item as Record<string, unknown>).centroid;
+        delete (item as Record<string, unknown>).anchor;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return data;
+};
+
 export const safeObject = <T extends object>(obj: any, fallback: T): T => {
   if (!obj) return fallback;
   let result = obj;
diff --git a/tests/profile-utils.test.ts b/tests/profile-utils.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a8630d44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/profile-utils.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "bun:test";
+import { stripProfileEmbeddings } from "../src/services/user-profile/profile-utils.js";
+
+describe("stripProfileEmbeddings", () => {
+  it("removes centroid and anchor from every item type", () => {
+    const data = {
+      preferences: [{ description: "a", centroid: [1, 2], anchor: [3, 4], confidence: 0.5 }],
+      patterns: [{ description: "b", centroid: [1], anchor: [2], frequency: 3 }],
+      workflows: [{ description: "c", centroid: [1], anchor: [2], steps: ["x"] }],
+    };
+
+    const result = stripProfileEmbeddings(data);
+
+    expect(result).toBe(data);
+    for (const key of ["preferences", "patterns", "workflows"] as const) {
+      for (const item of result[key]) {
+        expect(item.centroid).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(item.anchor).toBeUndefined();
+      }
+    }
+    expect(result.preferences[0].confidence).toBe(0.5);
+    expect(result.patterns[0].frequency).toBe(3);
+    expect(result.workflows[0].steps).toEqual(["x"]);
+  });
+
+  it("tolerates missing, malformed or non-object sections", () => {
+    expect(stripProfileEmbeddings(undefined as any)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(stripProfileEmbeddings(null as any)).toBeNull();
+    expect(stripProfileEmbeddings({} as any)).toEqual({});
+    expect(stripProfileEmbeddings({ preferences: "not-an-array" } as any)).toEqual({
+      preferences: "not-an-array",
+    });
+    expect(() => stripProfileEmbeddings({ patterns: [null, 1, "x"] } as any)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+});