Message trigger output does not contain actual data

I am trying to create a custom recipe that accepts a message as part of the user input. When I receive the event on my server, it looks like this:

{                                                     
  payload: {                                          
    blockMetadata: null,                              
    inboundFieldValues: {                             
      boardId: 700512087,                             
      itemId: 700512094,                     
      message: 'Here is the update: {pulse.text} {pulse.name}{board.name}{user.name}{pulse.group}{pulse.person}{pulse.status}{pulse.date4}'                       
    },                                                
    inputFields: {                                    
      boardId: 700512087,                             
      itemId: 700512094,                     
      message: 'Here is the update: {pulse.text} {pulse.name}{board.name}{user.name}{pulse.group}{pulse.person}{pulse.status}{pulse.date4}'                       
    }                                                 
  }                                                   
}

As you can see, the column values are not actually sending as part of the payload, only the column ids.

In the UI when creating the recipe, I added the auto-populate values, and it looks like this:

Is this normal behavior?