Are there any mods that remove the motive desperation animations and reactions?

There's this one: https://modthesims.info/download.php?t=479163

Just to make it even more nasty... Why not also use

Testingcheatsenabled on
Hideheadlineeffects on

Then you won't get the "immersion-breaking" thought-balloons either. ~evil grin~. Then you won't know what your sims situation is unless you look at their motive bars in the menu.

...or they drop dead. One or the other.