There is no such thing as an "original" raw file. If you could see it, it would just be a very dark and compressed grayscale image. ACR's defaults are by design conservative, intended to preserve as much as possible of the original data captured by the sensor.
The rest is up to you. The sliders are meant to be used.
The camera-processed jpeg/preview is just Nikon's interpretation of how the image should look, and their priority is to make it look appealing. But make no mistake, any raw file has to be interpreted and processed to produce a useful image.