Academy of Sciences of Heroesland

The word "theme" is associated with the topic. 100% accurate.

Association (Latin: Associatio – connection) – in psychology – a regular connection between individual events, facts, objects, or phenomena, reflected in consciousness and fixed in memory. With an associative connection between mental phenomena A and B, the emergence of phenomenon A in a person's consciousness inevitably leads to the emergence of phenomenon B in consciousness.
Let's consider the words "theme" and "discussion." A theme is the semantic core of a text, a condensed and generalized content of the text. The text was about wolves in this sentence. Since the word "theme" naturally triggered the word "discussion" in my memory, I assumed that the person wanted to start discussing wolves. What's so unclear about that?