I think it's interesting that since early AGOT, we've been seeing how quickly Sansa actually clocks people for what they are and how she ignores that in favour of her future. When Sansa meets Barristan Selmy and Renly Baratheon in Sansa I, it's not them she fixated on; it's Ilyn Payne.
At first Sansa did not notice the third stranger. He did not kneel with the others. He stood to one side, beside their horses, a gaunt grim man who watched the proceedings in silence. His face was pockmarked and beardless, with deepset eyes and hollow cheeks. Though he was not an old man, only a few wisps of hair remained to him, sprouting above his ears, but those he had grown long as a woman's. His armor was iron-grey chainmail over layers of boiled leather, plain and unadorned, and it spoke of age and hard use. Above his right shoulder the stained leather hilt of the blade strapped to his back was visible; a two-handed greatsword, too long to be worn at his side.
[...] but Sansa could not take her eyes off the third man. He seemed to feel the weight of her gaze. Slowly he turned his head. Lady growled. A terror as overwhelming as anything Sansa Stark had ever felt filled her suddenly. She stepped backward and bumped into someone.
Throughout the entire chapter, Sansa is fawning over Joffrey, trying to please her betrothed and keep the fairytale like veneer over her story, and when Joffrey and Arya get into a fight, it all breaks apart. Joffrey snaps at Sansa, and for a brief moment, the illusion disappeared.
His eyes snapped open and looked at her, and there was nothing but loathing there, nothing but the vilest contempt. "Then go," he spit at her. "And don't touch me."
It's only when she wills herself to ignore that slight does her illusion of a gallant Joffrey come back into play. Even so, when we see Joffrey again in Sansa II, she's uncomfortable because she still remembers the incident at the Trident and Lady's following death. At first, she had, rightly, blamed Joffrey for it because she finally saw that romance tinted lens crack, but had to make a conscious decision to absolve him of the guilt from her mind because he was the crown prince, because he was the future king, because he was her future husband and to hate the man she, at that point, believed she'd have to spend the rest of her life with would be folly. And still, she's nervous around him.
When Prince Joffrey seated himself to her right, she felt her throat tighten. He had not spoken a word to her since the awful thing had happened, and she had not dared to speak to him. At first she thought she hated him for what they'd done to Lady, but after Sansa had wept her eyes dry, she told herself that it had not been Joffrey's doing, not truly. The queen had done it; she was the one to hate, her and Arya. Nothing bad would have happened except for Arya.
In Sansa II, she meets Petyr Baelish for the first time and immediately is uncomfortable, the unease cutting into the otherwise dreamy atmosphere of the Tourney, much like the murder of Jon Arryn's squire, from which she can't look away from.
When Sansa finally looked up, a man was standing over her, staring. He was short, with a pointed beard and a silver streak in his hair, almost as old as her father. "You must be one of her daughters," he said to her. He had grey-green eyes that did not smile when his mouth did. "You have the Tully look."
"I'm Sansa Stark," she said, ill at ease.
Consistently, Sansa is a keen observer who does notice things and people others would overlook, but its her youth and desire to be good (a good girl, a good lady, a good hostage) that trips her judgement. Sansa longs for a fairytale like life, she wants a marriage like Ned's and Cat's, she wants to be a queen and a lady and wants perfection and stillness so bad that it makes her down right neurotic, and when she does notice things that don't fit the mold of her ideals (Ilyn Payne scaring her from the get go, Sansa first seeing Joffrey act cruel and reject her, Petyr Baelish making her uncomfortable) she rationalizes it by giving them roles in her mind (Ilyn Payne scares her therefor he must be a monster, Joffrey is her husband to be, but was cruel to her, her sister and a boy, so therefor this must not be his fault, he's just a misunderstood and troubled hero, Petyr Baelish is a lord and part of the small council therefor he Doesn't unnerve her, he's just being kind and friendly and she's being silly.) Sansa Stark is, at the end of the day, still a little girl being held hostage, but it is her keen eye and understandment of people that ultimately saves her and lets her live for as long as she has, even if at first it was hindered by her romanticized view of life.
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