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

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.