I understand this desire!
I think it would be most helpful to listen to some music and figure out what bass lines you hear that are exciting to you and capture the thing that you feel you’re missing.
Once you have a concrete example of what you want, it’s much easier to hone in on that target.
As a general rule, to find cool ways to connect chords, studying jazz walking lines can be very helpful. There’s a forum topic on learning jazz styles here: