Meanings of emotional payoff in English

But it doesn't quite earn the emotional payoff that it conspicuously seeks.

The picture's baffling swerves do nothing to deflate its final emotional payoff.

Let's see if they can deliver genuine emotional payoff too.

Is the emotional payoff of vandalising company property or hacking into the corporate computer system worth the professional risk?

A song this risky was bound to provide either the album's most emotional payoff or its most eyeroll-inviting moment.

We talk a lot about avoidance moments, like places where something, the real emotional payoff is about to happen and the writer flinches.

Meanwhile, some regulations forbid compensation for donating eggs for stem cell and cloning research, so there's no financial payoff, and no immediate emotional payoff.

The emotional payoffs precede the setups.